1 Samuel 1:5

But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved Anna. And the Lord had shut up her womb.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

4Now the day came, and Elcana offered sacrifice, and gave to Phenenna his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions:

6Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:

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Cross References

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

Genesis 20:18For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech on ac- count of Sara, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 30:2And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?

Genesis 45:22He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two robes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver with Ave robes of the best:

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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