Genesis 30:2
And Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said to her, Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of the womb?
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Genesis 20:18Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarrha Abraam's wife.
Genesis 29:31And when the Lord God saw that Lea was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Genesis 50:19And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I am God's.
Deuteronomy 7:13And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; and he will bless the off-spring of your + 7:13 Gr. belly. body, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to you.
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land; for the barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has waxed feeble.
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 →