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

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He had two wives;(A) one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

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And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

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But they had no child,[a] because Elizabeth was barren and both were advanced in years.(A)

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  1. 1:7 They had no child: though childlessness was looked upon in contemporaneous Judaism as a curse or punishment for sin, it is intended here to present Elizabeth in a situation similar to that of some of the great mothers of important Old Testament figures: Sarah (Gn 15:3; 16:1); Rebekah (Gn 25:21); Rachel (Gn 29:31; 30:1); the mother of Samson and wife of Manoah (Jgs 13:2–3); Hannah (1 Sm 1:2).

But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.

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And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.

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