1 Samuel 1:6 - Easy To Read Version

⁶ Peninnah always upset Hannah and made her feel bad. Peninnah did this because Hannah was not able to have children.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ [This embarrassed and grieved Hannah] and her rival provoked her greatly to vex her, because the Lord had left her childless.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

Common English Bible

⁶ And because the LORD had kept Hannah from conceiving, her rival would make fun of her mercilessly, just to bother her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And her rival afflicted her and vehemently distressed her, to a great extent, for she rebuked her that the Lord had closed her womb.

1 Samuel 1:6 Cross References

Job 6:14

“A person’s friends should be kind\par to him if he has troubles.\par A person should be loyal to his friend,\par even if that friend turned away from \{God\} All-Powerful.\par

Job 24:21

Evil people hurt women\par who can’t have children.\par And they refuse to help women\par whose husbands are dead.\par

Leviticus 18:18

“While your wife is still living, you must not take her sister as {another} wife. This will make the sisters become enemies. You must not have sexual relations with [325] your wife’s sister.

Genesis 30:1

Rachel saw that she was not giving Jacob any children. Rachel became jealous of her sister Leah. So Rachel said to Jacob, “Give me children or I will die!”

1 Samuel 1:7

The same thing happened every year. Every time their family went to the Lord’s house at Shiloh, Peninnah made Hannah upset. One day Elkanah was giving sacrifices. [7] Hannah became upset and began to cry. Hannah would not eat anything.

Judges 11:37

Then Jephthah’s daughter said to her father, “But do this one thing for me first. Let me be alone for two months. Let me go to the mountains. I will not marry and have children, so let me and my friends go and cry together.”

1 Samuel 2:1

Hannah said:

2 Samuel 6:23

Saul’s daughter Michal never had a child. She died without having any children.