Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
He had two wives - Compare Genesis 4:19. This was permitted by the law Deuteronomy 21:15, and sanctioned by the practice of Jacob Gen. 29, Ashur I Chronicles 4:5, Shaharaim I Chronicles 8:8, David I Samuel 25:43, Joash II Chronicles 24:3, and others.
Hannah - i. e. "Beauty or charm," is the same as "Anna" Luke 2:36.
Peninnah - i. e. "a Pearl," is the same name in signification as "Marqaret."
The frequent recurrence of the mention of barrenness in those women who were afterward famous through their progeny (as Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel) coupled with the prophetic language of Hannah' s song in 1 Sam. 2, justifies us in seeking a mystical sense. Besides the apparent purpose of marking the children so born as raised up for special purposes by divine Providence, the weakness and comparative barrenness of the Church of God, to be followed at the set time by her glorious triumph and immense increase, is probably intended to be foreshadowed.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 1:2:
1 Samuel 1:15
1 Samuel 25:43
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