2And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
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And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. …
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)We have here an account of the state of the family into which Samuel the prophet was born. His father’s name was Elkanah, a Levite, and of the family of the Kohathites (the most honourable house of that tribe) as appears, 1 Chron. 6:33 , 34 . His ancestor Zuph was an Ephrathite, that is, of Bethlehem-Judah, which was called Ephrathah , Ruth 1:2. There this family of the Levites was first seated, b…
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