1 Samuel 1:5

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

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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

4Then the day arrived, and Elkanah immolated. And he gave portions to his wife Peninnah, and to all her sons and daughters.

6And her rival afflicted her and vehemently distressed her, to a great extent, for she rebuked her that the Lord had closed her womb.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:30But Sarai was barren and had no children.

Genesis 20:18For the Lord had closed every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

Genesis 30:2Jacob, being angry, responded to her, “Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?”

Genesis 45:22Likewise, he ordered two robes for each of them to be brought. Yet truly, to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver along with five of the best robes.

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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