Genesis 25:21
And Yitzchak davened to Hashem on behalf of his isha, because she was barren; and Hashem was entreated of him, and Rivkah his isha conceived.
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Genesis 11:30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis 16:2And Sarai said unto Avram, Hinei now, Hashem hath restrained me from bearing; go now in unto my shifchah; it may be that I may build family by her. And Avram paid heed to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 30:22And Elohim remembered Rachel, and Elohim paid heed to her, and opened her rekhem (womb).
1 Samuel 1:11And she vowed a neder (vow), and said, O Hashem Tzva'os, if thou wilt indeed look on the misery of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid zera anashim, then I will give him unto Hashem kol yamei of his chayyah, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
1 Chronicles 5:20And they were helped against them, and the Hagari'im were delivered into their yad, and all that were with them, for they cried to Elohim in the milchamah, and He was entreated of them + 5:20 T.N. These genealogies establish the massively eye-witnessed veracity of the death and resurrection of Israel in and from the Golus. because they put their trust in Him.
Ezra 8:23So we did a tzom and besought Eloheinu for this, and He was entreated of us.
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 →