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.
when Rachel.
Genesis 29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but …
Rachel envied. Envy and jealousy are most tormenting passions to the breast which harbours them, vexatious to all around, and introductory to much impatience and ungodliness. 'Who is able to stand before envy?'
Genesis 37:11 And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.
1 Samuel 1:4-8 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his …
Psalm 106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
Proverbs 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this …
1 Corinthians 3:3 For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and …
Galatians 5:21 Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the …
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …
James 3:14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, …
James 4:5 Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells …
or else I die.
Genesis 35:16-19 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to …
Genesis 37:11 And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.
Numbers 11:15,29 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if …
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came …
Job 3:1-3,11,20-22 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day…
Job 5:2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
Job 13:19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, …
Jeremiah 20:14-18 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my …
John 4:3,8 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee…
2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented …
And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
anger.
Genesis 31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and strived with Laban: and Jacob answered and …
Exodus 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he …
Matthew 5:22 But I say to you, That whoever is angry with his brother without …
Mark 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved …
Ephesians 4:26 Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath:
Am I.
Genesis 16:2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from …
Genesis 25:21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: …
Genesis 50:19 And Joseph said to them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
1 Samuel 1:5 But to Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but …
1 Samuel 2:5,6 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they …
2 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, …
withheld.
Deuteronomy 7:13,14 And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you: he will also …
Psalm 113:9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother …
Psalm 127:3 See, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb …
Luke 1:42 And she spoke out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed are you among …
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
Behold.
Genesis 30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, …
Genesis 16:2,3 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from …
she shall.
Genesis 50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation…
Job 3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
have children by her. Heb. be built up by her.
Genesis 16:2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from …
Ruth 4:11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We …
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
to wife.
Genesis 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram …
Genesis 21:10 Why she said to Abraham, Cast out this female slave and her son: …
Genesis 22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bore also Tebah, and …
Genesis 25:1,6 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah…
Genesis 33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and …
Genesis 35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelled in that land, that Reuben …
2 Samuel 12:11 Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out …
And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
A.M.
Genesis 29:32-35 And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben: …
Psalm 35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let …
Psalm 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O …
Lamentations 3:59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
Dan. that is, Judging.
Genesis 35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
Genesis 46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
Genesis 49:16,17 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel…
Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Jeremiah 13:2,24 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins…
Jeremiah 15:14-20 And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land which you …
And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
great wrestlings. Heb. wrestlings of God.
Genesis 23:6 Hear us, my lord: you are a mighty prince among us: in the choice …
Genesis 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until …
Exodus 9:28 Entreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty …
1 Samuel 14:15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all …
and she.
Genesis 35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
Genesis 46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis 49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words.
Deuteronomy 33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full …
Naphtali. that is, My wrestling.
Genesis 32:24,25 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until …
Matthew 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelled in Capernaum, which is …
Nephthalim.
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
she.
Genesis 35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are …
Genesis 46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and …
Genesis 49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Deuteronomy 33:20,21 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges Gad: he dwells as …
Gad. that is, A troop, or company.
Isaiah 65:11 But you are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, …
And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
A.M.
Proverbs 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and …
Songs 6:9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, …
Luke 1:48 For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, …
and she.
Genesis 35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are …
Genesis 46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, …
Genesis 49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Deuteronomy 33:24,25 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him …
Asher. that is, Happy.
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
A.M.
Genesis 30:6,22 And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, …
Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people …
1 Samuel 1:20,26,27 Why it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had …
Luke 1:13 But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for your prayer is …
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
and she.
Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, …
Genesis 46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
Genesis 49:14,15 Issachar is a strong donkey couching down between two burdens…
Deuteronomy 33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and, …
1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding …
Issachar. that is, An hire.
And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
A.M. cir.
Genesis 30:15 And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken my …
Genesis 29:34 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said, Now this time …
and she.
Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, …
Genesis 46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
Genesis 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for …
Judges 4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with …
Judges 5:14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after you, …
Psalm 68:27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and …
Zebulun. that is, Dwelling.
Matthew 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelled in Capernaum, which is …
Zabulon.
And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
remembered.
Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle …
Genesis 21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah …
Genesis 29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but …
1 Samuel 1:19,20 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the …
Psalm 105:42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
opened.
Genesis 30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in …
Genesis 21:1,2 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah …
Genesis 25:21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: …
Genesis 29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but …
Psalm 113:9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother …
Psalm 127:3 See, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb …
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
'Be fruitful and multiply,' was the blessing of God: barrenness therefore was reckoned a reproach. The intense desire of having children, observable among the Jewish women, arose not only from this reproach of barrenness, but from the hope of being the mother of the promised seed, and Him in whom all the nations of the earth were to be blessed.
Genesis 29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but …
1 Samuel 1:5,6 But to Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but …
Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We …
Luke 1:21,25,27 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marveled that he tarried …
And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
And she.
Genesis 35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
Genesis 37:2,4 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years …
Genesis 39:1-23 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of …
Genesis 42:6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold …
Genesis 48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, …
Genesis 49:22-26 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose …
Deuteronomy 33:13-17 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious …
Ezekiel 37:16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write on it, For …
Acts 7:9-15 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but …
Hebrews 11:21,22 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; …
Revelation 7:8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe …
Joseph. that is, Adding.
Genesis 35:17,18 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife …
And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
Send me away.
Genesis 24:54,56 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and …
mine.
Genesis 18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with …
Genesis 31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his …
and to.
Genesis 24:6,7 And Abraham said to him, Beware you that you bring not my son thither again…
Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; …
Genesis 27:44,45 And tarry with him a few days, until your brother's fury turn away…
Genesis 28:13,15 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God …
Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, and where …
Acts 7:4,5 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelled in Charran: …
Hebrews 11:9,15,16 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, …
Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
my wives.
Genesis 29:19,20,30 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you, than that I …
Genesis 31:26,31,41 And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you have stolen …
Hosea 12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a …
for thou.
Genesis 30:29,30 And he said to him, You know how I have served you, and how your …
Genesis 31:6,38-40 And you know that with all my power I have served your father…
And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
favour.
Genesis 18:3 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favor in your sight, pass …
Genesis 33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the folk that are …
Genesis 34:11 And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find grace …
Genesis 39:3-5,21 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD …
Genesis 47:25 And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find grace in the …
Exodus 3:21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: …
Numbers 11:11,15 And Moses said to the LORD, Why have you afflicted your servant? …
Ruth 2:13 Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord; for that …
1 Samuel 16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray you, stand before …
1 Kings 11:19 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave …
Nehemiah 1:11 O LORD, I beseech you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer …
Nehemiah 2:5 And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant …
Daniel 1:9 Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the prince …
Acts 7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor …
the Lord.
Genesis 30:30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased …
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: …
Genesis 26:24 And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God …
Genesis 39:2-5,21-23 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he …
Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that …
Isaiah 6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be …
Isaiah 61:9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring …
Isaiah 65:8 Thus said the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and …
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
increased. Heb. broken forth.
Genesis 30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, …
and the.
Genesis 30:27 And Laban said to him, I pray you, if I have found favor in your eyes, tarry…
since my coming. Heb. at my foot.
Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of …
when.
2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not …
1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his …
And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
he removed. From this it appears, that, as Jacob had agreed to take all the parti-coloured for his wages, and was now only beginning to act upon this agreement, and consequently had as yet no right to any of the cattle, therefore Laban separated from the flock all such cattle as Jacob might afterwards claim in consequence of his bargain, leaving only the black and white with Jacob.
the hand.
Genesis 31:9 Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
Jacob.
Genesis 31:9-13 Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me…
green poplar. Livneh is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from lavan to be white.
hasel. Jerome, Hiller, Celsius, Dr. Shaw, Bochart, and other learned men, say, that luz is not the 'hazel' but the almond-tree, as the word denotes both in Arabic and Syriac.
chestnut tree. The Heb. word armon, signifies 'the plane-tree,' so called from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk naked, as its root aram, signifies.
Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees …
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive. As the means which Jacob used would not in general produce similar effects, nay, probably the experiment was never in any other instance tried with effect, it is more in harmony with Divine truth to suppose that he was directed by some Divine intimation; and rendered successful, if not by a direct miracle, yet at least by the Lord's giving a new and uncommon bias to the tendency of natural causes.
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis 30:30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased …
Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 24:35 And the LORD has blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: …
Genesis 26:13,14 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became …
Genesis 28:15 And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where …
Genesis 31:7,8,42 And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; …
Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, …
Genesis 33:11 Take, I pray you, my blessing that is brought to you; because God …
Genesis 36:7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell together…
Ecclesiastes 2:7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house…
Ezekiel 39:10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down …
