The sorrow of Israel was great, if any family or tribe went childless; Jeremiah 22:30. And the reason, over and above the common affliction of barrenness in a house, was, because the prospect Israel looked to, of Christ coming out of that family, was thereby defeated. Moreover, by the law, any one that had a blemish was deprived of the honour of the priesthood, and admittance into the congregation of the Lord; Leviticus 21:17. But what a rich consolation did the Lord hold out in this scripture, in the view of the covenant, in and by Christ, of adoption into his family. What a fulness of all relations in one, is found in Jesus! He fills all, and supplies all, and makes up the want of all. And as Elkanah said to Hannah, how much more may we hear Christ speaking; Am not I better to thee than ten sons? 1 Samuel 1:8. Oh! for grace to have an union and interest in that everlasting name of Christ, by which his people are called, Acts 11:26.
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Isaiah 56:3-5
3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.