1 Samuel 1:2
He had two wives. The name of the first wife was Hannah, and the name of the second, Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
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Genesis 4:19Lamech married two women. The first was named Adah, and the second was named Zillah.
Genesis 11:30Sarai wasn't able to become pregnant and so had no children.
Genesis 25:21Isaac prayed to the Lord for help on behalf of his wife because she couldn't have children. The Lord answered his prayer and she became pregnant.
Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw that Leah wasn't loved he helped Leah to have children, but not Rachel.
Judges 8:30Gideon had seventy sons, all his own, because he had many wives.
Matthew 19:8“Because of your hard-hearted attitude Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but it wasn't like that in the beginning,” Jesus replied.
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 →