1 Samuel 1:6

And her rival vexed her sore, to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

5but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.

7And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she vexed her; therefore she wept, and would not eat.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:18And thou shalt not take a woman to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.

1 Samuel 2:1And Hannah prayed, and said: my heart exulteth in the LORD, my horn is exalted in the LORD; my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in Thy salvation.

Job 6:14To him that is ready to faint kindness is due from his friend, even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

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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