47 – Hannah’s Rejoicing Prophetic Prayer

NOTE: THE TRANSCRIPT IS NOT EXACTLY LIKE THE RECORDING.

Hannah laid a profound inspirational and prophetic foundation with her prayer. Some of its elements would later be taught by Yeshua to His Disciples. Elements of her prayer were later used by the Psalmists, including David, and YHVH referred to her prayer when telling Jeremiah what He would do to Israel. She gives us many lessons in proper prayer, praise and even how we sometimes speak prophecies when praying through the Holy Spirit.

Elements of her prayer was often quoted from the Torah by her. Her prayer accompanied the bull, the Thanksgiving offering which she brought. Do we understand how important and powerful it is to praise the One who answers our prayers? All of our prayers from the smallest request to the biggest?

Every time YHVH gives us the victory, we should exalt Him, praise and thank Him. And just when is it that we get the victory in our lives? What defines “victory” in YHVH? Just getting out of bed in the morning is a victory. Psalms 91 is dedicated to how He helps us through life, even through the night (Psalm 91:5). Is there anything that happens in our life for which we should not give praise and thanks? No. He even deserves praise and thanks for and during our trials, the things that make us worry, that upset us, frustrate and irritate us. He allows those things to happen so we can praise and thank Him all the more and help ourselves to grow in His Holy Spirit and the image of Yeshua Messiah. Most of all, we should praise Him for such a great salvation which He has done for us.

Much of Hannah’s prayer contains double entendre, double meanings, in the same verse and even the same sentence, with understandings to be taken both personal and nationally by Hannah herself, by us individually and by all Israel nationally. Here is what Hannah prayed.

Hannah’s Rejoicing Prophetic Prayer

1 Samuel 2:1  Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. -WEB

1 Samuel 2:1  My heart is established in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God; my mouth is enlarged over my enemies, I have rejoiced in thy salvation. -Septuagint

The Septuagint uses the word “established” instead of “exults” or “rejoices” (KJV).

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G4732
στερεόω
stereoō
ster-eh-o’-o

From G4731; to solidify, that is, confirm (literally or figuratively): – establish, receive strength, make strong.

“Established” is a better word in the sense that praising YHVH establishes and solidifies our faith. It is too easy to lose our faith in times of discouragement when things go wrong if we are not in the habit of praising YHVH for the victories and the trials He gives us, those He has given us and those He will give us. David is such a good example of praising YHVH in the middle of distress.

Psalms 22:1  For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? 

Who among us has not felt this way? Yeshua even spoke these words on the Cross.

Psalms 22:2  My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent. 

In other words, David is at the point where he is crying all the time – day and night.

Psalms 22:3  But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel. 

David cried out in his distress but then praised God for inhabiting the praises of Israel. Even in our distress, we can always praise God for who He is and what He does.

Now back to the rest of 1 Samuel 2:1 which says Hannah’s victory has now given her an enlarged mouth, i.e. a big smile and perhaps even laughing openly in front of, but not AT, her enemy, Peninnah. We are never to rejoice in our enemy’s troubles (Proverbs 24:17-18). For Hannah, just living with joy now and no tears was the greatest victory of her life. It was enough to be openly happy in front of Peninnah. There was no need for Hannah to taunt Peninnah as she had done to Hannah.  

And Hannah rejoices in God’s salvation, her deliverance from shame. There are so many ways that we get God’s salvation but we tend to limit it to our being “saved”, you know… The becoming immortal and entering YHVH’s Kingdom. But He saves us in every way we can be saved every day of our lives as His blessing to us which He defines in Deuteronomy 28 IF we will obey Him. For this, He deserves our frequent, may I say daily, praise.

1 Samuel 2:2  There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God. 

We know nothing if we don’t know this. Hannah got this understanding just from the first commandment:

Exodus 20:2  “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 

All the knowledge on earth is useless without knowing YHVH is the most holy and Most High God, that there is no one besides Him and He is the rock of our salvation, which she quoted from Deuteronomy 32:15. But no one can know this unless they are filled with YHVH’s Holy Spirit. Everything we need to know about having a relationship with YHVH is found in the Torah, Prophets and History, i.e. the “Old Testament”. There is no new instruction for this in the New Testament except for Yeshua’s example on living out what is taught in the Old Testament. Paul also taught us what Hannah already knew:

1 Corinthians 2:12  But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. 

When were those things which are freely given, given to us by God? Starting with Genesis 1:1. More specifically though, the details of what YHVh wants us to know starts with covenant Law at Mount Sinai all the way through to the end of Deuteronomy.

1 Corinthians 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 

Some people don’t know that what the Holy Spirit teaches, and what He wants to teach, comes from His Law which He gave to Moses to teach to us.

1 Corinthians 2:14  Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 

The natural Israelites backed away from the mountain and did not receive the things YHVH wanted to teach them. This is why they were never able to attain to the righteousness of the Law (Romans 9:31).

1 Corinthians 2:15  But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
1 Corinthians 2:16  “For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind. 

Hannah had Messiah Yeshua’s mind even though it would be about another 1,000 years before He was born on earth.

She also knew Deuteronomy 4:35 which says, “It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him” which is why she quoted this in her prayer. Hannah was a Torah keeper whose legacy reaches all the way to the end of days. How then, can the Torah have been done away or have grown old and died as Christian theology, the leaven of Christian Pharisees, says when this prayer of Hannah is taught to Christians? It can’t be had both ways: That her prayer is for now when it is based on that which is passed away.

1 Samuel 2:3  “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed. 

Speaking to Peninnah in her prayer to YHVH, Hannah says to Him what Peninnah needs to hear. Did Hannah say these things to Peninnah? We don’t know but it is wise to speak what we want to say to others in YHVH’s ears instead of in our enemy’s ears for this only picks a fight to no good end. I suspect Hannah would not have spoken that way to Peninnah. She would have known the other scripture in Deuteronomy 32:35 which says vengeance belongs to YHVH. We should want to see people humble themselves to YHVH instead of arrogating ourselves to humble them to us. So, Hannah addressed Peninnah’s arrogance and persecution. Those who persecute YHVH’s righteous people will be judged as Hannah alludes to in this verse. Their actions will be weighed by God, not by any arguments or shaming of them we make.

“By him actions are weighed” means that our actions, what we do in our relationship with Him, whether we are obedient to His Law or not, determines how He will judge us. It’s not about our feeling, our emotions. It is about what we DO! For instance, we can’t say we obey the Sabbath then go to church on Sunday while we work and shop on Shabbat, the day set aside for those who worship YHVH. The action of not obeying the 7^th day Sabbath says we are not in covenant with Him, doesn’t it? That’s because the Sabbath is THE sign between us and Him that WE know YHVH is our Elohim (Exodus 31:13). Worshiping a god on Sunday puts you squarely in THAT god’s camp but that god’s camp is not Elohim’s camp.

Thus, Hannah’s prayer actually points all who claim to believe in YHVH right back to the Torah.

1 Samuel 2:4  “The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength. 

Peninnah’s bow with which she shot those piercing arrows is now broken, most certainly, but there is a national reference here as well. Peninnah is not a “mighty man” though she was a formidable foe until YHVH put her in her place by giving Hannah a son.

This prayer now goes beyond the personal to some other “mighty men whose arrows were [or will be] broken”. The mighty men fighting against Israel at that time were the Philistines. Samson was still skirmishing with them. Maybe Hannah knew about it. Likely, anyone who attended the Feasts at Shiloh would receive the news of Samson’s personal war against the Philistines. How do you think Samuel was able to write about it? There were oral historical accounts of it. At this moment in her prayer, Hannah would have known the Philistines were not yet defeated in her time but she also understood that YHVH works from eternity. The war was already won; just not at the time Hannah was praying the thanksgiving prayer and Hannah was comparing her ordeal with Peninnah with that of Israel against the Philistines.

Hannah’s prophecies about the fall of mighty men would not be fulfilled only in the far and farthest futures. Her son would be the catalyst for the defeat of the Philistines. Samuel would be the one to anoint the King who would defeat the Philistines to the point where they no longer ruled over Israel, albeit they would not be totally destroyed until the time of the Babylonian empire. Samuel’s anointing of David not only resulted in the defeat of the Philistines, it would extend all the way to the end of days to the last beast empire when the Son of God, the Messiah and successor to David’s throne.

“Those who stumbled” girding themselves with strength refers to the strength of YHVH, of course, but this also extends from Hannah’s time all the way to the end of days when Yeshua will raise up His restored army, the 144,000. It will be only through His strength that all of our enemies will be defeated. Israel will stumble no more after this. Did Hannah know this when these words came out of her mouth?

There is an online debate about whether Hannah was a prophetess. Some say yes, some no. This prayer has prophecy in it but she is like those 70 men in Numbers 11:16-30 who prophesied once and then never again. Were they prophets? Yes, but of a special once-in-a-lifetime kind. YHVH used them for His purposes but they were not called to be lifelong prophets. This was Hannah’s status, as well, even though the words of her prayer echo through the scriptures to this time in the earth’s history. 

1 Samuel 2:5  Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes. 

Let’s distinguish “those who have hired themselves out for bread” and “the one who has many children languishes”, together, from “those who were hungry are satisfied” and “the barren has borne seven”, together. This literary style puts references to Hannah and YHVH’s people sandwiched between Peninnah and religious Israel. So let’s separate them and look at them separately.

“Those who hired themselves out for bread” symbolizes a desperate condition both for Peninnah and Israel at that time and in the future because Peninnah represents Israel in prophecy. Israel had hired herself out, i.e. had allowed herself to be governed by the Philistines just to have enough peace so they could eat bread to eat. Both Peninnah and the nation of Israel were experiencing trouble under the Philistine occupation. This may also indicate that Peninnah had fallen on hard times and out of favor within Elkanah’s household. We will see this in a reference from Jeremiah in a minute and will see how Israel had fallen into the same state as Peninnah.

Then, “she who has many children languishes” also refers to Peninnah and this is where YHVH makes reference from Hannah’s prayer to Jeremiah, and from it we will find out how many children Peninnah had because YHVH changed the wording a little when speaking to Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 15:9  She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh. 

1 Samuel 2:5 says, “She who has many children languishes”, not “she who has born seven” languishes.

YHVH slightly changed 1 Samuel 2:5 to tell us how many children the one who languishes, Peninnah, bore and then He tells us about Peninnah’s plight after Hannah birthed Samuel (languishing) but He uses this part of Hannah’s prayer as a reference to the condition of Israel in Jeremiah’s day. Why did YHVH change the quote from Hannah? The number seven is for perfection and completion. Peninnah thought she was all that and a bag of chips, you see. Later on, during Jeremiah’s time, the Jews had reached the spiritual place where they were sure THEY were perfect and complete even though they worshiped the Queen of Heaven and other gods. YHVH inserting “seven” where Hannah had not spoken it was a hint to Jeremiah of the Peninnah-like arrogance of the Jews. Peninnah then became a type and shadow for Israel in this way, and this type and shadow holds all the way to the end even to the Great Whore of Mystery Babylon who will exhibit the same pride and arrogance as Peninnah against Hannah. Why? Because Yeshua’s Betrothed Bride has not yet borne a son for YHVH. She will only do this during the Tribulation (Revelation 12). The Jews of the modern political State of Israel will exhibit against Biblical Israel, which is the living remnant who keeps the commandments and has the testimony of Yeshua, the persecution of Peninnah.

Who is Hannah prophetically? She is the remnant of all believers who keeps YHVH’s Law and has a personal relationship with Him, the one who He has been trying to get from the time of Adam and Eve all the way to the end of days. Some of the remnant were not privileged to be part of the formation of Israel at Mount Sinai, nonetheless, there were Torah keepers before Mount Sinai. Abraham, for example, kept the Law of YHVH, according to Genesis 26. Hannah, and those remnant people, had relationship with YHVH, looking forward to the Cross whereas we look back to the Cross, and keeping His Law.

Now let’s go to “Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven.”

Hannah was hungry for a child but she is now satisfied. It is enough to be satisfied. Can’t you hear the joy in this statement?

“The barren has borne seven”. Apparently, Peninnah bore seven children which Hannah now claims she has done with just her one son. So satisfied is she, it is like she has borne seven! The number seven is a metaphor for Hannah’s state of perfect and completion.

1 Samuel 2:6  “Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up. 

Hannah knew her Torah! Every Shabbat, she would have heard it read from the scrolls and she memorized it. How do I know this? Here is what she had memorized:

Deuteronomy 32:39  “See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. 

And what did she understand from Deuteronomy 32:39? Resurrection. YHVH brings people back up from the grave. There is nothing new in the New Testament, folks. He wasn’t just sitting around one day talking with His Son and saying, “We have to do something drastic. This earth experiment isn’t working out so good”, and then deciding He would do this new thing where His Son would die and then be resurrected. No! Resurrection was part of the redemption process from the beginning! A lot of people were going to die over the 7,000 year period from the time of Adam’s sin. So YHVH had this thing figured out before He laid the cornerstone foundation to form the earth.

People did not have Bibles like we do now. They were taught every Shabbat and at the Feasts from the only scriptures they would have known: The first 5 Books – Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and possibly Joshua. When Yeshua came, and John proclaimed Him to be the Word, the first 5 Books is what that Jewish idiom (The Word) meant.

1 Samuel 2:7  Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. 

Hannah again quotes from Deuteronomy. It seems she knew Deuteronomy quite well for someone who only got to hear it. People today could learn a lesson from this, all we who have Bibles gathering dust on bookshelves or are hidden in drawers.

Deu 8:17  and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
Deu 8:18  But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today. 

Then Hannah says something very exciting!

1 Samuel 2:8  He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them. 

This is the most exciting part of her prayer! “He raises up the poor out of the dust”. First, YHVH raised Hannah above her place of shame but there is another prophetic reference here: RESURRECTION!

“To make them [the poor and needy] sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory”. And might I add they will rule and reign with Him 1,000 years. But wait! There is another exciting reference to resurrection coming up!

Revelation 20:6  Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years. 

Hannah spoke of the end times resurrection, people being raised from the dust, and the reign of YHVH’s people in the 7^th Millennium.

1 Samuel 2:9  He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength. 

Do you want to know the influence that Hannah had on the remnant of Israel? No such scriptures of YHVH keeping the feet of His people are found from Genesis through Judges. It is first found here in 1 Samuel 2:9 and throughout the scriptures and in the Psalms. Here is a partial list mentioning the feet of God’s people which were inspired by Hannah’s prayer (Psalms 17:5, Psalms 18:33, Psalms 25:15, Psalms 31:8, Psalms 40:2, Psalms 47:3, Psalms 66:8-9, Psalms 116:8, Psalms 119:105, Psalms 91:12 (Satan used this one against Yeshua), Psalms 91:9-10, 13). I didn’t mention Isaiah 32:20 about the blessed feet on the mountains of Israel or any others. Hannah inspired later generations just by mentioning an idea not before used – the feet. Hannah’s words in 1 Samuel 2:9 influenced future prayers, songs and prophecies!

1 Samuel 2:10  Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.” 

Who is this “He” who will give strength to “His” King resulting in resurrection? Yes, resurrection again. When Yeshua explained the resurrection to His Disciples, He knew from where the doctrine was written. Why is this yet another reference to resurrection in Hannah’s prayer?

Let’s look at the Hebrew word for exalt in verse 10.

H7311
רוּם
rûm
room

A primitive root; to be high [as in high and lifted up], actively to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively): – bring up, exalt (self), made to be set …on high.

Whose horn was raised up when Yeshua was resurrected? Yeshua’s! Hannah’s horn was her elevation to her rightful place as first wife of Elkanah and mother of his children. This is the elevation that is coming to YHVH’s remnant from the time of Adam to now which Hannah represents. But where Yeshua is concerned, it was His horn, His authority, His rightful place that was “raised up” in literal resurrection! Without Him, there is no resurrection and no Bride to be elevated. Hannah believed in resurrection before it was widely known!

And then we must address who was it that gave His strength to Yeshua? The Father! Hannah understood this relationship about the Father and the Son!

Matthew 28:18  Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth, He said in Matthew 11:27 and John 20:21. 

Who is the horn of God’s anointed which, in Hannah’s time, had not arrived yet on earth?

Luke 1:67  His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
Luke 1:68  “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
Luke 1:69  and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 

Psalms 92:10  But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

Psalms 132:17  There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

Hannah knew who the One who has always been God’s anointed and she was the first person in scripture to address YHVH as King. YHVH = Father and Son. They are ONE and together they equal a singular rulership called “King”. Hannah understood this. Hannah knew there WAS a King in Israel and His name is YHVH! That’s all in verse 10! Not only did she address YHVH as “YHVH of Armies”, LORD of Hosts, “YHVH commander-in-chief”, she now associates YHVH with being the actual KING of Israel! And she proclaims a profound prophetic truth that all who mess with Him will be broken into pieces. Messing with His Betrothed Bride He considers as messing with Him. Thus, one reason for the destruction of Mystery Babylon who will have the blood of the saints on her hands. Hannah could only pray this way because she was praying in YHVH’s Holy indwelling Spirit! Yes, people were indwelt by YHVH’s Holy Spirit in the Old Testament.

Jude 1:20  But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. 

That is exactly what Hannah was doing. She was praying in the Holy Spirit. This is why she is the woman who parallels the end times Betrothed Bride of Messiah. Peninnah is not. Peninnah symbolizes those who have the religious spirit, the spirit of arrogant and rebellious ancient Israel that is still with us today in both Judaism and Christianity.

The prophecy of Hannah’s prayer, Him “thundering to conquer the earth”, and who we will all see thundering, riding across in the sky as Hannah prayed, will be fulfilled when Yeshua returns riding His white conquering horse. When He gets here, ain’t nobody gonna be messin’ with His Betrothed Bride, the remnant, anymore!

Revelation 19:11  And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Revelation 19:12  His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Revelation 19:13  And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Revelation 19:14  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Revelation 19:15  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Revelation 19:16  And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. 

1 Samuel 2:11  Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest. 

And YHVH blessed Hannah with five more children (1 Samuel 2:21).