Genesis 30:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

With great wrestlings, Heb. With wrestlings of God; either with great and hard wrestlings or strivings, or by wrestling with God in fervent prayer, and by God's grace and strength. Cir. 1747 I have prevailed; which was not true; for her sister exceeded her both in the number of her children, and in her propriety in them, being the fruit of her own womb, not of her handmaid s, as Rachel's were. Here is an instance how partial judges most persons are in their own causes and concernments.

Genesis 30:8

8 And Rachel said, With greatb wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.