Genesis 25:22

The children struggled against each other in her womb, and she said, “Why is this happening to me? What does it mean?” She went to ask the Lord,

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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

21Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she had no children; and the Lord heard his prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.

23who said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, two peoples divided from birth, One will be stronger than the other, the elder will serve the younger.”

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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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