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He had two wives: the name of the one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.

Now this man used to go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to Adonai-Tzva’ot in Shiloh.[a] (The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were kohanim of Adonai there.) Then on the designated day Elkanah would sacrifice and give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters,

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:3 cf. Luke 2:41.

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

Year after year(B) this man went up from his town to worship(C) and sacrifice to the Lord Almighty at Shiloh,(D) where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli,(E) were priests of the Lord. Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice,(F) he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.(G)

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