1 Samuel 1:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Her rival used to provoke her severely, to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.

Cross References

Job 6:14

“Those who withhold kindness from a friend forsake the fear of the Almighty.

Job 24:21

“They harm the childless woman and do no good to the widow.

Leviticus 18:18

And you shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

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!”

1 Samuel 1:7

So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

Judges 11:37

And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: grant me two months, so that I may go and wander on the mountains and bewail my virginity, my companions and I.”

1 Samuel 2:1

Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in my God. My mouth derides my enemies because I rejoice in your victory.

2 Samuel 6:23

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