1 Samuel 1

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1 Samuel 1:5

The LORD had shut up her womb.

But the Lord afflicted her with barrenness.

1 Samuel 1:20

When the time was come about.

When the full number of months were come about after her conception.

1 Samuel 1:28

I have also lent him to the LORD.

I have, upon my vow, returned him to the Lord, as consecrated unto him by me formerly.

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A Plain and Familiar Explication of the Hard Texts of Scripture

Joseph Hall (1574-1656) was Bishop of Exeter and then of Norwich, and one of the most widely read devotional writers of the English church - Thomas Fuller called him 'our English Seneca'. This work takes the passages of Scripture that ordinary readers find hardest and renders each as a plain …

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