Luke 1:7
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
8Now it came to pass, while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,
Cross References
Genesis 15:2And Abram said, O Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Dammesek Eliezer?
Genesis 17:17Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis 25:21And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Judges 13:2And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
1 Samuel 1:5but unto Hannah he gave a double portion: for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb.
2 Kings 4:14And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.
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 →