1 Samuel 1:2

and he has two wives, the name of the first [is] Hannah, and the name of the second Peninnah, and Peninnah has children, and Hannah has no children.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

In Context

1And there is a certain man of Ramathaim-Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name [is] Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite,

3And that man has gone up out of his city from time to time, to bow himself, and to sacrifice, before YHWH of Hosts, in Shiloh, and there [are] two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests of YHWH.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:19And Lamech takes to himself two wives, the name of the first Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.

Genesis 11:30And Sarai is barren—she has no child.

Genesis 25:21And Isaac makes plea to YHWH before his wife, for she [is] barren: and YHWH accepts his plea, and his wife Rebekah conceives,

Genesis 29:31And YHWH sees that Leah [is] the hated one, and He opens her womb, and Rachel [is] barren;

Judges 8:30and there have been seventy sons of Gideon, coming out of his loin, for he had many wives;

Matthew 19:8He says to them, “Moses for your stiffness of heart permitted you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

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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