1 Samuel 1:5

and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion — double, for he hath loved Hannah, and Jehovah hath shut her womb;

Young's Literal Translation

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

4And the day cometh, and Elkanah sacrificeth, and he hath given to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions,

6and her adversity hath also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for Jehovah hath shut up her womb.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:30And Sarai is barren — she hath no child.

Genesis 20:18for Jehovah restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 30:2And Jacob's anger burneth against Rachel, and he saith, 'Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?'

Genesis 45:22to all of them hath he given — to each changes of garments, and to Benjamin he hath given three hundred silverlings, and five changes of garments;

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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