Genesis 25:22

And the babes leaped within her; and she said, If it will be so with me, why is this to me? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.

In Context

21And Isaac prayed the Lord concerning Rebecca his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and his wife Rebecca conceived in her womb.

23And the Lord said to her, There are two nations in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy belly, and one people shall excel the other, and the + 25:23 Gr. the greater shall serve the less. Rom. 9. 12.elder shall serve the younger.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 10:22And Samuel asked yet again of the Lord, + 10:22 Gr. does?Will the man come hither? and the Lord said, Behold, he is hid among the stuff.

1 Samuel 28:6And Saul enquired of the Lord; and the Lord answered him not by dreams, nor by manifestations, nor by prophets.

Ezekiel 20:31and do ye pollute yourselves with the first-fruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith ye pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 25:20-29

Birth of Esau and Jacob. ( b. c. 1837.) 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. 21 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire… Read the whole commentary →

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