1 Samuel 1:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

And he had two wiues: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

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  • Gen 4:23 : 23 Then Lamech saide vnto his wiues Adah and Zillah, Heare my voyce, ye wiues of Lamech: hearken vnto my speach: for I would slay a man in my wound, and a yong man in mine hurt.
  • Gen 16:1-2 : 1 Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name. 2 And Sarai said vnto Abram, Beholde now, the Lorde hath restrained me from childe bearing. I pray thee goe in vnto my maide: it may be that I shall receiue a childe by her; Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 And Izhak prayed vuto the Lorde for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiued,
  • Gen 29:23-29 : 23 But whe the euening was come, he tooke Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in vnto her. 24 And Laban gaue his mayde Zilpah to his daughter Leah, to be her seruant. 25 But when the morning was come, behold, it was Leah. Then sayde he to Laban, Wherefore hast thou done thus to mee? did not I serue thee for Rahel? wherfore then hast thou beguiled me? 26 And Laban answered, It is not the maner of this place, to giue the yonger before the elder. 27 Fulfill seuen yeeres for her, and we wil also giue thee this for the seruice, which thou shalt serue me yet seuen yeeres more. 28 Then Iaakob did so, and fulfilled her seuen yeeres, so he gaue him Rahel his daughter to be his wife. 29 Laban also gaue to Rahel his daughter Bilhah his mayde to be her seruant.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 When the Lord saw that Leah was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rahel was barren.
  • Deut 21:15-17 : 15 If a man haue two wiues, one loued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the loued and also the hated: if the first borne be the sonne of the hated, 16 Then when the time commeth, that hee appointeth his sonnes to be heires of that which he hath, he may not make the sonne of the beloued first borne before the sonne of the hated, which is the first borne: 17 But he shall acknowledge the sonne of the hated for the first borne, and giue him double portion of all that he hath: for hee is the first of his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the first borne.
  • Judg 8:30 : 30 And Gideon had seuentie sonnes begotten of his body: for he had many wiues.
  • Judg 13:2 : 2 Then there was a man in Zorah of the familie of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was baren, and bare not.
  • Matt 19:8 : 8 He sayd vnto them, Moses, because of the hardnes of your heart, suffered you to put away your wiues: but from the beginning it was not so.
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.
  • Luke 2:36 : 36 And there was a Prophetesse, one Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser, which was of a great age, after she had liued with an husband seuen yeeres from her virginitie:
  • Gen 4:19 : 19 And Lamech tooke him two wiues: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1There was a man of one of the two Ramathaim Zophim, of mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Elihu, the sonne of Tohu, the sonne of Zuph, an Ephrathite:

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    3And this man went vp out of his citie euery yeere, to worship and to sacrifice vnto the Lord of hostes in Shiloh, where were the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas Priests of the Lord.

    4And on a day, when Elkanah sacrificed, he gaue to Peninnah his wife and to all her sonnes and daughters portions,

    5But vnto Hannah he gaue a worthy portion: for he loued Hannah, and the Lorde had made her barren.

    6And her aduersarie vexed her sore, forasmuch as she vpbraided her, because the Lorde had made her barren.

    7(And so did he yeere by yeere) and as oft as she went vp to the house of the Lord, thus she vexed her, that she wept and did not eate.

    8Then sayd Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thine heart troubled? am not I better to thee then ten sonnes?

    9So Hannah rose vp after that they had eaten and drunke in Shiloh (and Eli the Priest sate vpon a stoole by one of the postes of the Temple of the Lord)

    10And she was troubled in her minde, and prayed vnto the Lord, and wept sore:

    11Also she vowed a vowe, and sayd, O Lord of hostes, if thou wilt looke on the trouble of thine handmaide, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaide, but giue vnto thine handmaide a manchilde, then I will giue him vnto the Lord all the dayes of his life, and there shall no rasor come vpon his head.

    12And as she continued praying before the Lord, Eli marked her mouth.

    13For Hannah spake in her heart: her lips did moue onely, but her voyce was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had bene drunken.

    14And Eli sayde vnto her, Howe long wilt thou be drunken? Put away thy drunkennesse from thee.

    15Then Hannah answered and sayd, Nay my lord, but I am a woman troubled in spirit: I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drinke, but haue powred out my soule before the Lord.

    16Count not thine handmaide for a wicked woman: for of the abundance of my complaint and my griefe haue I spoken hitherto.

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    20And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord giue thee seede of this woman, for the petition that she asked of the Lord: and they departed vnto their place.

    21And the Lorde visited Hannah, so that she conceiued, & bare three sonnes, & two daughters; the childe Samuel grewe before the Lord.

    22So Eli was very olde, and heard all that his sonnes did vnto all Israel, and howe they laye with the women that assembled at the doore of the tabernacle of the Congregation.

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    18She sayd againe, Let thine handmayd finde grace in thy sight: so the woman went her way, and did eate, and looked no more sad.

    19Then they rose vp early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. Nowe Elkanah knewe Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembred her.

    20For in processe of time Hannah conceiued, and bare a sonne, and she called his name Samuel, Because, said she, I haue asked him of the Lord.

    21So the man Elkanah and all his house went vp to offer vnto the Lord the yeerely sacrifice, and his vowe:

    22But Hannah went not vp: for she sayd vnto her husband, I will tarie vntill the childe be weined, then I will bring him that hee may appeare before the Lord, and there abide for euer.

    23And Elkanah her husband sayd vnto her, Do what seemeth thee best: tarie vntill thou hast weined him: only the Lord accomplish his word. So the woman abode, and gaue her sonne sucke vntill she weined him.

    24And when she had weined him, she tooke him with her with three bullockes and an Ephah of floure and a bottell of wine, and brought him vnto the house of the Lorde in Shiloh, and the childe was yong.

  • 2Then there was a man in Zorah of the familie of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was baren, and bare not.

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    25And the sonnes of Elkanah, Amasai, and Ahimoth.

    26Elkanah. The sonnes of Elkanah, Zophai his sonne, and Nahath his sonne,

    27Eliab his sonne, Ieroham his sonne, Elkanah his sonne,

    28And the sonnes of Shemuel, the eldest Vashni, then Abiah.

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    1In the time that the Iudges ruled, there was a dearth in the lande, and a man of Beth-lehem Iudah went for to soiourne in the countrey of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sonnes.

    2And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi: and the names of his two sonnes, Mahlon, and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem Iudah: and when they came into the land of Moab, they continued there.

    3Then Elimelech the husbande of Naomi died, and she remayned with her two sonnes,

  • 11And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house, and the childe did minister vnto the Lord before Eli the Priest.

  • 15If a man haue two wiues, one loued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the loued and also the hated: if the first borne be the sonne of the hated,

  • 1Then there went a man of the house of Leui, and tooke to wife a daughter of Leui,

  • 36And there was a Prophetesse, one Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser, which was of a great age, after she had liued with an husband seuen yeeres from her virginitie:

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    5But Asher the father of Tekoa had two wiues, Heleah, and Naarah.

    6And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni and Haashtari: these were the sonnes of Naarah.

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    26And she said, Oh my Lord, as thy soule liueth, my lord, I am the woman that stoode with thee here praying vnto the Lord.

    27I prayed for this childe, and the Lord hath giuen me my desire which I asked of him.

  • 5In the time of Herod King of Iudea, there was a certaine Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabet.

  • 2And he came vp and told his father and his mother and saide, I haue seene a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistims: now therfore giue me her to wife.

  • 1Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name.

  • 26Also Ierahmeel had another wife named Atarah, which was the mother of Onam.

  • 15And Machir tooke to wife the sister of Huppim & Shuppim, and the name of their sister was Maachah; the name of the second sonne was Zelophthad, and Zelophehad had daughters.

  • 29And the name of the wife of Abishur was called Abiahil, and shee bare him Ahban and Molid.

  • 27Then thy seruant my father sayde vnto vs, Ye knowe that my wife bare me two sonnes,

  • 30But Sarai was barren, and had no childe.