Unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion Or, a double portion; in token of his extraordinary respect and kindness to her. For he loved Hannah: but the Lord Or, though the Lord, had shut her womb Her barrenness did not cause him to love her less, but rather more; because he would comfort her under her affliction. To abate our just love to any relations for the sake of any infirmity which they cannot help, is to add affliction to the afflicted. Her adversary also provoked her sore Peninnah, through envy or jealousy, set herself against her, though so nearly related to her, and strove to vex her by upbraiding her with her barrenness.
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1 Samuel 1:5-6
5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthyb portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
6 And her adversary also provokedc her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.