1 Samuel 1:6

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

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In The King James Version

And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

In Context

5But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children.

7And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:18And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

1 Samuel 2:1And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.

Job 6:14He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

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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