1 Samuel 1:2

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,

“Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.

He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.

Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,

The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,

Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

“You shall not murder.

He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,

About Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan.”

Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.

The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,