Wherever Scripture Says She Had None It Means She Would

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 77:4

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"And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children" (1 Samuel 1:2). Rabbi Levi said: in every place where it says "she has none," she came to have. "And Sarai was barren; she had no child" (Genesis 11:30), and she came to have, "And the LORD remembered Sarah" (Genesis 21:1). And likewise: "she has none to comfort her" (Lamentations 1:2), and she came to have, "I, even I, am He who comforts you" (Isaiah 51:12). "And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children," and she came to have, "and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters" (1 Samuel 2:21). "Zion, for whom none cares" (Jeremiah 30:17), and she came to have, "And a redeemer shall come to Zion" (Isaiah 59:20). "Sing, O barren one who did not bear" (Isaiah 54:1), and she came to have, "and you will say in your heart: Who bore me these?" (Isaiah 49:21).

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ConsolationRedemptionZion

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