² Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

⁴¹ And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh

³³ In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah;

⁷ And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

²¹ Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.

² And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children.

³ Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

⁴ And when the day came for Elkanah to make his offering, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, their part of the feast:

⁵ But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children.

⁶ And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;