World English Bible
1 Samuel 1:8
“Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 1
6
Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
7
[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.
8
Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?
9
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh.
10
She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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