1 Samuel 1:6

For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

In Context

5And to Anna he gave + 1:5 Gr. one portion.a prime portion, because she had no child, only Helkana loved Anna more than the other; but the Lord had closed her womb.

7So she did year by year, in going up to the house of the Lord; and she was dispirited, and wept, and did not eat.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:18Thou shalt not take a wife in addition to her sister, as a rival, to uncover her nakedness in opposition to her, while she is yet living.

1 Samuel 2:1My heart is established in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God; my mouth is enlarged over my enemies, I have rejoiced in thy salvation.

Job 6:14Mercy has rejected me; and the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.

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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