Ruth 4:13
And Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her; and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.
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Genesis 25:21And Isaac prayed the Lord concerning Rebekah his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and his wife Rebekah conceived in her womb.
Genesis 30:2And Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said to her, Am I in the place of God, who has deprived thee of the fruit of the womb?
Genesis 33:5And Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, and said, What are these to thee? And he said, The children with which God has mercifully blessed thy servant.
Ruth 4:12And let thy house be as the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this handmaid.
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full of bread are brought low; 1 And the hungry have forsaken the land; 1 For the barren has born seven, 1 And she that abounded in children has waxed feeble. 1
Psalms 127:3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine 1 On the sides of thy house: 1 Thy children as young olive plants 1 Round about thy table. 1
Matthew Henry on Ruth 4:10-13
Ruth Married to Boaz. ( b. c. 1312.) 9 And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. 10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day. 11 And all the people… Read the whole commentary →