1 Samuel 1:2
And he had two wives: the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
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Genesis 4:19And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah.
Genesis 11:30And Sarai was barren: she had no child.
Genesis 25:21And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren; and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebecca his wife conceived.
Genesis 29:31And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Judges 8:30Now Gideon had seventy sons who had come out of his loins, for he had many wives.
Matthew 19:8He says to them, Moses, in view of your hardheartedness, allowed you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not thus.
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 →