1 Samuel 1:9
So after they had taken food and wine in the guest room, Hannah got up. Now Eli the priest was seated by the pillars of the doorway of the Temple of the Lord.
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10And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord.
Cross References
1 Samuel 3:15And Samuel kept where he was, not moving till the time came for opening the doors of the house of God in the morning. And fear kept him from giving Eli an account of his vision.
Psalms 5:7\5:6\You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.
Psalms 29:9At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory.
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 →