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1 Samuel 1:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?” "

1 Samuel 1:8

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

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.

8 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

9 So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the LORD’s temple.

10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.

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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 1:2

"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."

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."

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