I. Hannah’s desire for (motherhood) the will of God.
A. For a wife in Israel not to be a mother was considered an affliction and dishonor.
Motherhood was looked on as the highest function of a wife. The greatest wish one woman could have for another was that she might be the mother of many children. Hannah was the first and favorite wife of Elkanah, but, Hannah had no children. To perpetuate his name Elkanah, wrongly took a second wife who gave birth to a large number of children and gloried over Hannah and became her adversary.
