Genesis 30:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. ”

Genesis 30:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- 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 30:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 30:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Zilpah.... wife. This was strictly in accordance with the Code of Khammurabi, 145. Compare Genesis 16:1-3 ; Genesis 30:3 ; Genesis 30:4 . See App-15.
Genesis 30:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. When Leah saw that she had left bearing. Moses returns to Leah, who, not content with four sons, devised a method whereby she might always retain her superior rank: and therefore she also...
Genesis 30:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
Genesis 30:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. Leah ... took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. Leah took the same course as Rachel h...
Genesis 30:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 30:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Genesis 30:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Genesis 30:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Genesis 30:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When Leah saw that she had left bearing ,.... For a little while, for she afterwards bore again, and observing also what her sister had done; she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife :...
Genesis 30:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. Ver. 9. Left bearing, ] viz., Till she began again, Genesis 30:17 .
Genesis 30:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Rachel had absurdly and preposterously put her maid into her husband's bed; and now Leah, because she missed one year in bearing children, doth the same, to be even with her. See the power of rivalsh...
Genesis 30:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Genesis 30:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Increase of Jacob's Family. B. C. 1745. 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no chi...
Genesis 30:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Genesis 30:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing she took Zilpah her handmaid and gave her to Jacob for a wife. And Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son. And Leah said, “It is fortunate (gad)....
Genesis 30:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 30:1 . Give me children, or else I die.] Heb. “If none, I am a dead woman.” As to the raising up of seed, I shall be as good as dead. An old Jewish proverb says, “The chi...
Genesis 30:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Genesis 30:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Rachel envied her sister. Rachel’s impatience I. IT WAS UNGODLY. 1. She was the victim of unholy passions. Envy and jealousy. 2. She took a despairing view of life. 3. She failed right...
Genesis 30:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 30:1 And when Rachel saw (apparently after, though probably before, the birth of Leah's fourth son) that she bare Jacob no children (literally, that she bare not to...
Genesis 30:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sons of Bilhah and Zilpah
Genesis 30:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A.M. 2256. B.C. 1748. left. Genesis 30:17 Genesis 29:35 gave her. Genesis 30:4 Genesis 16:3
Genesis 30:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Rachel had done that absurd and preposterous thing of putting her maid into her husband's bed, and now Leah (because she missed one year in bearing children) doth the same, to be even with her. See...

Genesis 30:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 30:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 30:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 30:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 30:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 30:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 30:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 30:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 30:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 30:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 30:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 30:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 30:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 30:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 30:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes