Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?
Elkanah was careful to observe some of the statutes in the Mosaic Law, such as worshipping God yearly at Shiloh. However, he seems to have been somewhat insensitive to the depth of Hannah’s suffering as a barren woman (1 Samuel 1:8).