Hannah was the first wife of Elkanah, a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Hannah was mocked by her husband's second wife, Peninnah, because she had borne no children. Though her husband tried to comfort her, Hannah was mortified by her infertility and often wept or fasted in her distress. Finally, on one of her family's annual pilgrimages to the temple at Shiloh, she made a vow to God that if she was granted a son, she would dedicate him to the LORD for life. Hannah returned home and, in time, gave birth to a son. Whom she named Sammuel. When her son was weaned she took him back to the church at Shiloh and dedicated him to the LORD as she had promised.