1 Samuel 1:9

And Anna rose up after they had eaten in Selom, and stood before the Lord: and Heli the priest was on a seat by the + 1:9 Gr. lintels.threshold of the temple of the Lord.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.

In Context

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?

10And she was very much grieved in spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:15And Samuel + 3:15 Gr. sleeps or lies down.slept till morning, and rose early in the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord; and Samuel feared to tell Heli the vision.

Psalms 5:7Thou wilt destroy all that speak falsehood: the Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man.

Psalms 29:9To thee, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication.

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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