1 Samuel 1:6

Good News Translation (US Version)

Peninnah, her rival, would torment and humiliate her, because the Lord had kept her childless.

Cross References

Job 6:14

In trouble like this I need loyal friends— whether I've forsaken God or not.

Job 24:21

That happens because they mistreated widows and showed no kindness to childless women.

Leviticus 18:18

Do not take your wife's sister as one of your wives, as long as your wife is living.

Genesis 30:1

But Rachel had not borne Jacob any children, and so she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I will die.”

1 Samuel 1:7

This went on year after year; whenever they went to the house of the Lord, Peninnah would upset Hannah so much that she would cry and refuse to eat anything.

Judges 11:37

But she asked her father, “Do this one thing for me. Leave me alone for two months, so that I can go with my friends to wander in the mountains and grieve that I must die a virgin.”

1 Samuel 2:1

Hannah prayed: “The Lord has filled my heart with joy; how happy I am because of what he has done! I laugh at my enemies; how joyful I am because God has helped me!

2 Samuel 6:23

Michal, Saul's daughter, never had any children.