Genesis 25:21
And Isaac prayed the Lord concerning Rebecca his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and his wife Rebecca conceived in her womb.
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Genesis 11:30And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
Genesis 16:2And Sara said to Abram, Behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing, go therefore in to my maid, that I may get children for myself through her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sara.
Genesis 30:22And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and he opened her womb.
1 Samuel 1:11And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, O Lord God of Sabaoth, if you welt indeed look upon the humiliation of your handmaid, and remember me, and give to your handmaid a + 1:11 Gr. seed of men. boy, then will I indeed dedicate him to you till the day of his death; and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and no + 1:11 Gr. iron. razor shall come upon his head.
1 Chronicles 5:20and they prevailed against them: and the Agaraeans were given into their hands, they and all their tents: for they cried to God in the battle, and he listened to them, because they trusted on him.
Ezra 8:23So we fasted, and asked of our God concerning this; and he listened to 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 →