1 Samuel 1:5
and, unto Hannah, used he to give one portion,—howbeit, Hannah, he loved, although, Yahweh, had restrained her from having children.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
Cross References
Genesis 11:30And, Sarai, remained barren,—she had no child,
Genesis 20:18For Yahweh, had restrained from bearing, every female of the house of Abimelech,—because of Sarah, wife of Abraham.
Genesis 30:2Then kindled the anger of Jacob with Rachel,—and he said, Am I, in the place of God, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
Genesis 45:22to all of them, gave he to each man changes of raiment,—but, to Benjamin, he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
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 →