They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
"Yahweh is the key actor in the narrative. Hannah could speak complaint and petition only because she submitted to Yahweh. Eli could give assurance to her only because he spoke on behalf of Yahweh. The son is born only because Yahweh remembered. Everything depends on asking Yahweh and being answered by Yahweh. Thus scene 3 [1 Samuel 1:19-20] resolves scene 1 [1 Samuel 1:3-8], but only by way of the decisive intrusion of Yahweh through scene 2 [1 Samuel 1:9-18]." [Note: Brueggemann, p. 37.] 