1 Samuel 1:5

But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children.

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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

4And when the day came for Elkanah to make his offering, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, their part of the feast:

6And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;

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Cross References

Genesis 11:30And Sarai had no child.

Genesis 20:18For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 30:2But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

Genesis 45:22To every one of them he gave three changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred bits of silver and five changes of clothing.

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 →

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