1 Samuel 1:2
Good News Translation
Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not.

New Revised Standard Version
He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

Contemporary English Version
Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Although Peninnah had children, Hannah did not have any.

New American Bible
He had two wives, one named Hannah, the other Peninnah; Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of the other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no children.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of the other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no children.

two

Genesis 4:19,23 Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella. . . .

Genesis 29:23-29 And at night he brought in Lia, his daughter, to him, . . .

Judges 8:30 And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.

Matthew 19:8 He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

but

Genesis 16:1,2 Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar, . . .

Genesis 25:21 And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

Genesis 29:31 And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

Judges 13:2 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.

Luke 1:7 And they had no son, for that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were well advanced in years.

Context
Elkanah and His Wives
1There was a man of Ramathaimsophim, of Mount Ephraim, and his name was Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, the son of Thohu, the son of Suph, an Ephraimite: 2And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of the other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no children.3And this man went up out of his city upon the appointed days, to adore and to offer sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo. And the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of the Lord.…
Cross References
Luke 2:36
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity.

Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,

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