You may have heard of Noah, Abraham or Moses, but you may have missed Elkanah. He was not well-known then or now, not a king, priest or prophet but an ordinary man.

           While he faithfully went to worship God on Jewish festival days, he had also married two women. He was polygamous and it created problems. One of his wives, Peninnah, had children, but his other wife, Hannah had none. She struggled with infertility, which was even a bigger issue back then than it is today. A woman was measured by how many children she had