Luke 1:25
Hashem has done this for me. In these yamim he looked with Chen vChesed (favor and mercy, loving kindness) on me to take away my reproach among Bnei Adam. + 1:25 Gn 30:23; Isa 4:1
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Genesis 21:1And Hashem visited Sarah as He had said, and Hashem did unto Sarah just as He had spoken.
Genesis 30:22And Elohim remembered Rachel, and Elohim paid heed to her, and opened her rekhem (womb).
1 Samuel 1:6And her tzarah (adversary) also provoked her greatly, for to make her fret, because Hashem had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 2:21And Hashem visited Channah, so that she conceived, and bore three banim and two banot. And the na'ar Shmuel grew before Hashem.
Isaiah 4:1And in Yom Hahu (that day) sheva nashim (seven women) shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own lechem, and wear our own clothes; only let us be called by thy shem, to take away our disgrace.
Luke 1:13But the malach said to him, Do not have pachad (fear), Zecharyah. Your tefillah (prayer) was heard and your isha, Elisheva, will bear a ben to you and you will call his shem Yochanan.
Matthew Henry on Luke 1:6-26
The Appearance of an Angel to Zacharias; The Birth of John Foretold; The Unbelief of Zacharias. 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judæa, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. 8 And it came to… Read the whole commentary →