Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with Rachel and told her, “Am I God? Do you think I'm the one stopping you having children?”
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Genesis 20:18For the Lord had made all the women unable to have children because Abraham's wife, Sarah, had been taken.
Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw that Leah wasn't loved he helped Leah to have children, but not Rachel.
Genesis 50:19“You don't need to be afraid!” he told them. “I don't stand in the place of God, do I?
Deuteronomy 7:13He will love you and bless you and give you many descendants. He will bless your children and the crops your land produces—your grain, new wine, and olive oil, the calves of your cattle herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that he promised your forefathers to give you.
1 Samuel 2:5Those who used to have plenty of food now have to work to earn a crust, while those who used to be hungry now have become fat. The woman who was childless now has seven children, while the woman with many children fades away.
Psalms 113:9He makes the childless woman happy in her home by giving her children. Praise the Lord!
Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:2-14
Increase of Jacob's Family. ( b. c. 1745.) 1 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. 2 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? 3 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. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →