1 Samuel 1:7

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

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

In Context

6For 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.

8And Helkana her husband said to her, Anna: and she said to him, Here am I, my lord: and he said to her, What ails thee that thou weepest? and why dost thou not eat? and why does thy heart smite thee? am I not better to thee than ten children?

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Cross References

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.

Psalms 102:5who satisfies thy desire with good things: so that thy youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.

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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