1 Samuel 1:7

So year by year, when she went up to the LORD’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

8Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:1Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart exults in the LORD! My horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

Psalms 102:5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

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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