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1 Samuel 1:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. "

1 Samuel 1:2

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1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

2 He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

3 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there.

4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;

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  • Elkanah, father of Samuel Elkanah is the husband of Hannah.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:19
    They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
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  • Samuel Hannah is the mother of Samuel.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:20
    When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the LORD.”
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Related Verses

1 Chronicles 6:27

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"Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son."

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1 Samuel 2:21

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"The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the LORD."

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2 Chronicles 24:3

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"Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters."

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Ruth 1:2

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"The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there."

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1 Chronicles 4:5

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"Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah."

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Joshua 17:3

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"But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah."

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1 Samuel 1:1

"Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite."

1 Samuel 1:3

"This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to the LORD, were there."

1 Samuel 1:4

"When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters;"

1 Samuel 1:5

"but he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb."

1 Samuel 1:6

"Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb."

1 Samuel 1:7

"So year by year, when she went up to the LORD’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat."

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