And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
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Gill's Exposition
And her adversary also provoked her sore,.... That is, Peninnah, the other wife of Elkanah; for when a man had more wives, two or more, they were usually at enmity to one another, as the two wives of…
Adam Clarke
And her adversary - That is, Peninnah.
Provoked her sore - Was constantly striving to irritate and vex her, to make her fret - to make her discontented with her lot, because the Lord had denied her…
We have here an account of the state of the family into which Samuel the prophet was born. His father's name was Elkanah, a Levite, and of the family of the Kohathites (the most honourable house of…
Cambridge Bible
her adversary Peninnah. The cognate verb is used in Lev 18:18, "Thou shalt not take a wife to her sister to vex her."