1 Samuel 1:7

And, thus, used she to do, year by year, whenever she went up to the house of Yahweh, thus, used she to vex her,—and she wept, and would not eat.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

6And her rival used even to cause her great vexation, for the sake of provoking her,—because Yahweh had restrained her from having children.

8So Elkanah her husband said to her—Hannah! wherefore shouldst thou weep? and wherefore wilt thou not eat? and wherefore should thy heart be sad? Am, I, not better to thee, than ten sons?

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:1Then prayed Hannah, and said, My heart hath leaped for joy in Yahweh, My horn is exalted in Yahweh, My mouth is opened wide, o’er my foes, Because I rejoice in thy salvation.

Psalms 102:5At the noise of my groaning, my bone, hath cleaved, to my flesh:

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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