1 Samuel 1:8
Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?
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2 Samuel 12:16So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.
Job 6:14He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.
Isaiah 54:1Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.
John 20:13They said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I have no knowledge where they have put him.
1 Thessalonians 5:14And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from 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 →