Genesis 30:2
Jacob's anger burned against Rachel. He said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
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Genesis 20:18For Yahweh had caused all the women of the household of Abimelech to be completely infertile, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was not loved, so he opened her womb, but Rachel was childless.
Genesis 50:19But Joseph answered them, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
Deuteronomy 7:13He will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the multiplication of your cattle and the young of your flocks, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
1 Samuel 2:5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; 1 those who were hungry have stopped being hungry. 1 Even the barren one gives birth to seven, 1 but the woman who has many children languishes. 1
Psalms 113:9He gives a home to the barren woman of the house, 1 he makes her a joyful mother of children. 1 Praise Yahweh!
Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:2-14
Increase of Jacob's Family. ( b. c. 1745.) 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →