Hosah the Merarite had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him the first).

She wants to bring him to a state where he can acknowledge that one of her two sons is his and not Ilan’s—and he can come to love the boy, now a serving soldier.

"I am not drunk, but very unhappy and I have been praying for a son." she said.