<p class="bodytext">On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up.<n id="1" /> (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair<n id="2" /> by the doorpost of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.)

As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!&#8221; But she did not reply or pay any attention.<n id="1" />p>

They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him,<n id="1" /> for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.