1 Samuel 1:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 30:2

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

Genesis 45:22

To each one of them he gave a set of garments, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of garments.

Genesis 20:18

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

Genesis 16:1

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave whose name was Hagar,

Genesis 43:34

Portions were taken to them from Joseph’s table, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.

Deuteronomy 21:15

“If a man has two wives, one of them loved and the other disliked, and if both the loved and the disliked have borne him sons, the firstborn being the son of the one who is disliked,

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”

Genesis 11:30

Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.