1 Samuel 1:9

So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.

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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

8“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

10In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:15Samuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,

Psalms 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

Psalms 29:9The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”

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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