
1 Samuel 1:18 (Episode 224)
40 Minutes In The Old Testament
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The Lonely Polygamist
He's not upset that his wife is barren or doesn't seem to be blaming her for it. That's kind of new, right? I mean, a lot of times we kind of have the opposite. Or that he oddly enough prefers the, the barren wife to the one who can give children. So as a way to try to make her feel better that she can't, since she can't have kids, he's given her more stuff. But of course, this is not helping at all because then the wife who can have kids is upset about this. And so she uses the fact that she can provide offspring as away to jab at her.
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