Genesis 30:1
Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.
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Genesis 35:16So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.
Numbers 11:15If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
1 Samuel 1:4And when the day came for Elkanah to make his offering, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, their part of the feast:
1 Kings 19:4While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Job 3:11Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
Job 5:2For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:1
In this chapter we have an account of the increase, I. Of Jacob's family. Eight children more we find registered in this chapter; Dan and Naphtali by Bilhah, Rachel's maid, ver. 1-8 . Gad and Asher by Zilpah, Leah's maid, ver. 9-13 . Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah, by Leah, ver. 14-21 . And, last of all, Joseph, by Rachel, ver. 22-24 . II. Of Jacob's estate. He makes a new bargain with Laban, ver. 25-34 . And in the six years' further service he did to Laban God wonderfully blessed him, so that his stock of cattle… Read the whole commentary →