1 Samuel 1:5
but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
In Context
6Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
Cross References
Genesis 11:30Sarai was barren. She had no child.
Genesis 20:18For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
Genesis 30:2Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Genesis 45:22He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
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 →