1 Samuel 1:9

So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

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?”

10She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:15Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the LORD’s house. Samuel was afraid to show Eli the vision.

Psalms 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow towards your holy temple in reverence of you.

Psalms 29:9The LORD’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “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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