1 Samuel 1:4

Then the day arrived, and Elkanah immolated. And he gave portions to his wife Peninnah, and to all her sons and daughters.

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In The King James Version

And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

In Context

3And this man went up from his city, on the established days, so that he might adore and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests of the Lord, were in that place.

5But to Hannah he gave one portion with sorrow. For he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb.

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:15The flesh of it shall be eaten on the same day; neither shall any of it remain until morning.

Deuteronomy 12:17You may not eat in your towns the tithes of your crops, and your wine and oil, the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, nor anything which you will vow, or which you will offer spontaneously, nor the first-fruits of your hands.

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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