1 Samuel 1:2
And he had two wives: the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
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Genesis 4:19And Lamech took to him two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 11:30And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis 25:21And Isaac entreated LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis 29:31And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Judges 8:30And Gideon had seventy sons begotten from his body, for he had many wives.
Matthew 19:8He says to them, For your hard heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it did not happened this way.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 1:2-9
First Samuel This book, and that which follows it, bear the name of Samuel in the title, not because he was the penman of them (except of so much of them as fell within his own time, to the twenty-fifth chapter of the first book, in which we have an account of his death), but because the first book begins with a large account of him, his birth and childhood, his life and government; and the rest of these two volumes that are denominated from him contains the history of the reigns of Saul and David, who were both… Read the whole commentary →