to “look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but … give to your servant a son” (1 Sam. 1:11). This is not a random request, but rather one that mirrors what she had learned of God through the greatest of his saving deeds up to that time: the exodus. Whether or not Hannah had access to the writings of Moses, she knew the story well enough. The Lord told Moses, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because