1 Samuel 1:4

And the day came, and Helkana sacrificed, and gave portions to his wife Phennana and her children.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

In Context

3And the man went up + 1:3 Gr. from days to days. from year to year from his city, from Armathaim, to worship and sacrifice to the Lord God of Sabaoth at Selom: and there were Heli and his two sons Ophni and Phinees, the priests of the Lord.

5And to Anna he gave + 1:5 Gr. one portion. a prime portion, because she had no child, only Helkana loved Anna more than the other; but the Lord had closed her womb.

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:15Every one that eats fat off the beasts, from which he will bring a burnt offering to the Lord—that soul shall perish from his people.

Deuteronomy 12:17You shall not be able to eat in your cities the tithe of your corn, and of your wine, and of your oil, the firstborn of your herd and of your flock, and all your vows as many as you⌃ shall have vowed, and your thank-offerings, and the first fruits of your hands.

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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