World English Bible
1 Samuel 1:5
“but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 1
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This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.
4
When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
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but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
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Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
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[as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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