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216. Elkanah and His Wives 1. Today's Passage: 1 Samuel 1:1-8 Get to know your bible. It will become a good friend. Or find the passage NASB version on Bible Gateway here. You can search for other versions there as well. Versions even in foreign languages. Or, for your convenience I have typed the verses below from the New Living Testament (NLT). Thank You for meeting us, LORD. We welcome you into this place. Author: Uncertain/ some have suggested Samuel and the prophets Nathan and Gad Date Written: Uncertain, perhaps around 1000 BC 1. There was a man named Elkanah who lived in Ramah in the region of Zuph in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, of Ephraim. 2. Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not. 3. Each year Elkanah would travel to Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Of Heaven's Armies at the Tabernacle. The priests of the LORD at that time were the two sons of Eli⏤Hophni and Phinehas. 4. On the days Elkanah presented his sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to Peninnah and each of her children. 5. And though he loved Hannah, he would give her only one choice portion because the LORD had given her no children. 6. So Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her because the LORD had kept her from having children. 7. Year after year it was the same⏤Peninnah would taunt Hannah as they went to the Tabernacle. Each time, Hannah would be reduced to tears and would not even eat. 8. "Why are you crying, Hannah?" Elkannah would ask. "Why aren't you eating? Why be downhearted just because you have no children? You have me⏤isn't that better than having ten sons?" 1 Samuel 1:1-8 NLT 2. 12th strategy. History - Oh wow, that is where it comes from. Again, I would like to emphasize, simple acts of meditation are not so much difficult, as uncomfortable. God wants you to know how His story happened. How He created the earth, made his children, and how traditions became interwoven into his family.
3. Thank you Abba. You answer prayer. Thank you for your story. Thank you for the history we begin to read here. Thank you for sharing how you laid out your plan. Thank you for continuing your plan. Thank you for allowing us to be in your plan. Help us to know how to listen. In Your name we pray, Jehoshua, Jesus Son of God, Amen. 4. Please leave your last and first initials. If you find something interesting in your contemplation today, please leave a comment. Or simply type a period. We are happy that you are here today. We are blessed in your time with us. Before your day is finished, thank God for allowing you to be reading about Samuel. We pray for you! I pray daily for you! God is here with us. Blessings on your day. And I will be back here tomorrow, I hope I will see you here too. ~Robyn Robyn & Biff Cox RR&BC, LLC ©2016 Problems? Please contact Biff at rrandbc@readthebiblewithrobyncox.com Want fewer emails? Or, to unsubscribe? Feel free at anytime. Simply write Fewer Emails or Unsubscribe on the subject line of an email: rrandbc@readthebiblewithrobyncox.com RR&BC, LLC©2016 All writing is protected under copyright laws. NO COPYING ALLOWED on private membership page. Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation,copyright©1996,2004.Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved
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CC
8/27/2017 10:25:25 am
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BJ
8/27/2017 10:47:29 am
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RC
8/27/2017 08:44:57 pm
"Year after year it was the same⏤Peninnah would taunt
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