The Tabernacle at Shilo

It was to this tabernacle that Chana, wife of Elkana, came to pray before the presence of G-d. She poured out her heart in prayer for a child and was observed by Eli, the High Priest, who "sat upon a seat by the gate post of the temple of the L-rd" (Samuel I 1:9). Her prayer was answered and she gave birth to a son of whom she vowed that she "will give him to the L-rd all the days of his life;" he was the prophet Samuel.

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