6And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
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To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
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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