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1 Samuel 1:6

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.

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When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die! ” she said to Jacob.

And Saul’s daughter Michal had no child to the day of her death.

They prey on the childless woman who is unable to conceive, and do not deal kindly with the widow.

A despairing man should receive loyalty from his friends, even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty.

You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.

She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

Whenever she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival taunted her in this way every year. Hannah wept and would not eat.

Hannah prayed: My heart rejoices in the Lord; my horn is lifted up by the Lord. My mouth boasts over my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation.