Passage cross-references.

And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife. …

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. …

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. …

And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.