1 Samuel 2:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

[They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 113:9 : 9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [and to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
  • Jer 15:9 : 9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
  • Isa 54:1 : 1 ¶ Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 1:6 : 6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
  • 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD.
  • Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].
  • Luke 1:53 : 53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 ‹But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.›
  • Gal 4:27 : 27 For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

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  • Lam 4:4-5
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  • Lam 4:9-10
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    73%

    9 [They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.

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    73%

    53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.

  • Gal 4:27
    73%

    27 For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

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    5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • Isa 54:1
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  • Hos 4:10
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    10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

  • Job 22:9
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    7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

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  • Luke 23:29
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