1 Samuel 1:2
And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children.
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Genesis 4:19And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 11:30And Sarai had no child.
Genesis 25:21Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.
Genesis 29:31Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.
Judges 8:30Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.
Matthew 19:8He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.
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 →