Genesis 30:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

God hearkened unto Leah And she was now blessed with two sons, the first of whom she called Issachar, hire, reckoning herself well repaid for her mandrakes; nay, (which was a strange construction of the providence,) rewarded for giving her maid to her husband. The other she called Zebulun, dwelling, owning God's bounty to her, God has endowed me. Jacob had not endowed her when he married her; but she reckons a family of children a good dowry.

Genesis 30:17

17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.