womb” (1 Samuel 1:6). The reason for the contempt was Hannah’s barrenness. That emphasizes the pain a childless woman experienced. Third, the season of the contempt. “When she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her” (1 Samuel 1:7). Worship was a time when Hannah would be more vulnerable to attack, because the adversary would mock her faith in God because Hannah was barren. Satan thrives in mocking where saints are suffering. He mocks their faith, for he would make them think that because