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A passionate hope, Hannah's story, Jill Eileen Smith

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A passionate hope, Hannah's story, Jill Eileen Smith

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A passionate hope

Oclc number

987796722

Responsibility statement

Jill Eileen Smith

Series statement

Daughters of the promised land, #4

Sub title

Hannah's story

Summary

Two Old Testament women want to be loved by their shared husband--and to bear children. To what lengths will they go to get what they want most, and will either find her heart's desire? Hannah and her husband, Elkanah, share a deep and abiding love, for each other, for their God, and for his tabernacle at Shiloh. Greatly disturbed by the corruption of the priests, they long for restoration and pray for a deliverer. But nothing changes as the years pass. Years that also reveal Hannah to be barren. Pressured by his family to take another wife, Elkanah marries Peninnah, who quickly begins to bear children. Disgraced and taunted by her husband's new wife, Hannah turns again to prayers that seem doomed to go unanswered. Do her devotion and kindness in the face of Peninnah's cruelty count for nothing? Why does God remain silent and indifferent to her please?

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