begins with a narrative. that will weave throughout old testament, the story of david. but first we have to have samuel, we have to haveur hannah, hannah at the doese cenr of this unfolding story. scripture does not give us that much information about hannah. we don t know much of her background. she is an ordinary woman from one of tribes of israel. habba was not from a a comm powerful family or wife of a powerful man, she was married to a common man fromnd, wh obscure village. what does leap out to usce is ourrned a relationship with t husband whicerluh is tender, hes about her. we don t have any many of those. he had another wife, that is hard for us to understand in modern times how difficult that must have been for her.nn