1 Samuel 1:2

And he had two wives; the name of the one was Anna, and the name of the second Phennana. And Phennana had children, but Anna had no child.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1There was a man of Armathaim Sipha, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Helkana, a son of Jeremeel the son of Elias the son of Thoke, in Nasib Ephraim.

3And the man went up + 1:3 Gr. from days to days.from year to year from his city, from Armathaim, to worship and sacrifice to the Lord God of Sabaoth at Selom: and there were Heli and his two sons Ophni and Phinees, the priests of the Lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:19And Lamech took to himself two wives; the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the second Sella.

Genesis 11:30And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.

Genesis 25:21And Isaac prayed the Lord concerning Rebecca his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and his wife Rebecca conceived in her womb.

Genesis 29:31And when the Lord God saw that Lea was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

Judges 8:30And Gedeon had seventy sons begotten of his body, for he had many wives.

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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