“ And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. ”
- Jacob’s Family and Wealth 6. דן dān , Dan, “judge, lord.” 8. נפתלי naptālı̂y , Naphtali, “wrestling.” 11. גד gād , Gad, “overcoming, victory.” בגד bāgād , “in victory or”...
Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24 . The Birth of Jacob's Children. This section is from JE, with slight touches from P. Roughly Genesis 29:31-35 ; Genesis 30:9-13 is from J, Genesis 30:1-6 ; G...
God remembered. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. (22-24) Figure of speech Hysterologia, for Joseph born after Naphtali, not after Dinah. This Figure of speech is used to keep Leah's...
22. And God remembered Rachel. Since with God nothing is either before or after, but all things are present, he is subject to no forgetfulness, so that, in the lapse of time, he should n...
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. And God hearkened to her - After the severe reproof which Rachel had received from her husband, Genesis 30:2 , it appears th...
God remembered Rachel, &c.— Rachel, grown wiser by her husband's reproof, Genesis 30:2 applied herself to Him who is the Giver of children; and he heard her prayer, and granted her reques...
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Jacob's Children. His Stratagem to Increase his Property 1. Rachel envied her sister] To be childless was regarded as a great reproach: cp. Luke 1:25 . Fruitfulness meant an addition of strength...
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC ( Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29 ). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The Tôldôth in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing...
Sons Born to Jacob Genesis 30:1-24 The details of this paragraph are given with great minuteness, because they concern the twelve sons of Jacob, the forefathers of Israel. After all, history is...
In reading these stories we must never forget that we are looking at things as they were in that far-gone time and must make all necessary allowances for the imperfect light in which these people liv...
Observe Rachel's fretfulness, is by divine grace changed into prayer; for it is said that the Lord hearkened to her. 1 Samuel 1:27 .
And God remembered Rachel ,.... In a way of mercy and kindness, whom he seemed to have forgotten, by not giving her children: and God hearkened to her ; to her prayer, which had been made time aft...
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. Ver. 22. And God remembered Rachel. ] She began to think that God had forgotten her, because she was so long suspended, an...
God remembered Rachel Whom he seemed to have forgotten, and hearkened to her , whose prayers had been long denied, and then she bare a son. Rachel called her son Joseph, which, in Hebrew, is aki...
THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN RACHEL AND LEAH The fruitfulness of Leah moved Rachel to jealousy, then her demand to Jacob for children moves him to anger (vs.1-2). We may see a serious lesson in Rachel's w...
14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrake...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. And she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” And she called his name Joseph (yoseph), saying,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 30:23 . My reproach.] That is, the reproach of my barrenness. (See Luke 1:25 ; 1 Samuel 1:6 ; Isaiah 4:1 , Isaiah 4:1 .)— Genesis 30:24 . Joseph .] “Adding,” or, “...
Genesis 30:2 . Am I in God's stead. Rachel's impatience provoked Jacob's anger, because she asked of man whist was the prerogative of God to give. The rabbins remark here, that God keeps in his ow...
And God remembered Rachel God’s favour towards Rachel I. IT WAS LONG DELAYER. Discipline. II. IT WAS GRANTED TO HER AFTER SOME SOLEMN LESSONS HAD BEEN LEARNED. 1. Dependence. 2. Patien...
EXPOSITION Genesis 30:14 And Reuben (at this time four or five years old) went (probably accompanying the reapers) in the days of wheat harvest , and found mandrakes —דּוּדָאים, μῆλα...
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. It seems, then, that when all her schemes and stratagems failed, she turned to God in fervent and patient prayer, and that th...
remembered. Genesis 8:1 Genesis 21:1 Genesis 29:31 1 Samuel 1:19 1 Samuel 1:20 Psalms 105:42 opened. Genesis 30:2 Genesis 21:1 Genesis 21:2 Genesis 25:21 Genesis 29:31 Psalms 1...
God remembered Rachel, whom he seemed to have forgotten, and hearkened to her, whose prayers had been long denied, and then she bare a son. Rachael called her son Joseph, which, in Hebrew, is a — k...