A Passionate Hope: Hannah's Story (Daughters of the Promised Land #4) by Jill Eileen Smith

A Passionate Hope: Hannah's Story (Daughters of the Promised Land #4)

by Jill Eileen Smith

About:

Hannah and her husband, Elkanah, share a deep and abiding love, for each other, for their God, and for his tabernacle at Shiloh. Greatly disturbed by the corruption of the priests, they long for restoration and pray for a deliverer. But nothing changes as the years pass. Years that also reveal Hannah to be barren.

Pressured by his family to take another wife, Elkanah marries Peninnah, who quickly begins to bear children. Disgraced and taunted by her husband's new wife, Hannah turns again to prayers that seem doomed to go unanswered. Do her devotion and kindness in the face of Peninnah's cruelty count for nothing? Why does God remain silent and indifferent to her pleas?

Travel back to the dusty streets of Shiloh with an expert guide as Jill Eileen Smith brings to life a beloved story of hope, patience, and deliverance that shows that even the most broken of relationships can be restored. 

My Thoughts:

A Passionate Hope is great fiction account of Hannah. If you like Biblical fiction, you will love this book!  With the story of Hannah coming alive, I felt hope come through as I was surrounded with the people and culture during this time. Hannah and Elkanah were real in my mind as I was traveling the pages with them and walking the roads, eating with them during the feasts or watching the sacrifices take place. What I love about reading this book is that it continues to help the Bible come to life for me, which is awesome because the Bible is alive!

The story of Hannah made me weep and grieve is so many ways. Hannah is unable to bear children and she wrestles with God during her years of barrenness. The very things that Hannah wrestles with, are the things that I too wrestle with, but what I am reminded through the book of Hannah and in this fiction book, that God does hear and see our prayers even when he is silent. 

This book was wonderful and it I just loved it! If you love great Biblical fiction, give Jill Eileen Smith a read! This book was amazing! I give this book 5/5 stars.

About the Author:

Jill Eileen Smith is the bestselling, award-winning author of the Wives of King David series, the Daughters of the Promised Land, the Wives of the Patriarchs, and The Loves of King Solomon series. Her research has taken her from the Bible to Israel, and she particularly enjoys learning how women lived in Old Testament times.

When she isn’t writing, she loves to spend time with her family and friends, read stories that take her away, ride her bike to the park, snag date nights with her hubby, try out new restaurants, or play with her lovable, “helpful” cat Tiger. Jill lives with her family in southeast Michigan.