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1 Samuel 1:5-9

1 Samuel 1:5

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

1 Samuel 1:6

Her rival, moreover, would provoke her bitterly to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.

1 Samuel 1:7

And it happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, that she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.

1 Samuel 1:8

Then Elkanah her husband would say to her, “Hannah, why do you weep, and why do you not eat, and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

1 Samuel 1:9

Then Hannah got up after eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the temple of the Lord.