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1 Samuel 1:8

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1:8 Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? 1  Am I not better to you than ten 2  sons?”

1 Samuel 19:22

Context
19:22 Finally Saul 3  himself went to Ramah. When he arrived at the large cistern that is in Secu, he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” They said, “At Naioth in Ramah.”

1 tn Heb “why is your heart displeased?”

2 sn Like the number seven, the number ten is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number (see, for example, Dan 1:20, Zech 8:23).

3 tn Heb “he” (also in v. 23). the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.



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