Genesis 30:4

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

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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, “overc...
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 ;...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. She gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife. Rachel, following the exa...
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...
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 gav...
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...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid ,.... To be enjoyed as a wife, though she was no other than a concubine; yet such were sometimes called wives,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. Ver. 4. And Jacob went in unto her. ] Merely to please his wife, he yiel...
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 (...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Increase of Jacob's Family. B. C. 1745. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And she said, “See my maid Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees and I also may obtain children by her.” And she gave him Bilhah her ha...
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...
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 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...
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 Jac...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sons of Bilhah and Zilpah
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And she gave him Bilhah, her handmaid, to wife; and Jacob went in unto her. His own condition of mind with regard to his favorite wife's barrenness a...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

to wife. Genesis 16:3 Genesis 21:10 Genesis 22:24 Genesis 25:1 Genesis 25:6 Genesis 33:2 Genesis 35:22 2 Samuel 12:11

⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 30:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 30:4