1 Samuel 1:5

Modern English Version

But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb.

Cross References

Genesis 11:30

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Genesis 16:1

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, and she had a maidservant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 20:18

For the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I will die.”

Genesis 30:2

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Genesis 43:34

He gave them portions from his own table, but Benjamin’s serving was five times more than any of theirs. So they drank and feasted with him.

Genesis 45:22

To each of them he gave a change of clothes, but he gave to Benjamin three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes.

Deuteronomy 21:15

If a man has two wives, one beloved and another unloved, and both have borne him children, both the loved one and the unloved one, and if the firstborn son is hers that is unloved,