1 Samuel 1:5
but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but LORD had shut up her womb.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
In Context
6And her rival provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because LORD had shut up her womb.
Cross References
Genesis 11:30And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis 20:18For LORD had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 30:2And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
Genesis 45:22He gave to all of them, each man, changes of raiment, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
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 →