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Hannah

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SHILOH
Shiloh was the central Israelite sanctuary before the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the place Hannah traveled to year after year to worship and to pour out her grief before God.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ELI
Eli the priest watched Hannah pray and at first misread her silent, lip-moving petition, but when she explained, he blessed her and sent her home in peace, her face no longer sad.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SAMUEL
The name Samuel is linked in the text to the Hebrew phrase 'heard by God', Hannah herself connects it to the moment the Lord heard her cry and answered her longing.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
VOWED
Hannah's vow is one of the most personal in the Bible: she promised the child before he existed, surrendering her deepest desire before she had even received it.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Hannah word search, free to play, built around the woman who prayed so hard at Shiloh that Eli thought she was drunk.

About Hannah

Hannah's story, told in the opening chapters of 1 Samuel, is one of the most intimate portraits of prayer in all of Scripture, a woman so deep in grief and longing that her lips moved but no sound came out, and the priest Eli mistook her anguish for something else entirely. She had made a vow: if God gave her a son, she would give him back. When Samuel was born, she kept that promise, bringing the child she had waited and wept for to the temple at Shiloh and leaving him in service to the Lord. The song she sang afterward, full of reversals, of the lowly lifted and the proud brought low, echoes centuries later in Mary's own Magnificat, two mothers of miracle children praising the same faithful God.

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