1 Samuel 1:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;

Cross References

Genesis 30:1

Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.

2 Samuel 6:23

And Michal, Saul's daughter, had no child till the day of her death.

Job 24:21

He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

Job 6:14

He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

Leviticus 18:18

And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

Judges 11:37

Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.

1 Samuel 1:7

And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.

1 Samuel 2:1

And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.