God made Rachel able to have children. The *mandrakes did not do it. (See verse 14 and the comment.)
‘Joseph’ means ‘let him add’.
v25 After Joseph was born to Rachel, Jacob spoke to Laban. He said, ‘Send me away. Let me go to my own home and to my own country. v26 Give to me my wives and my children. I have served you in order to earn them. Now let me go. You know how well I have served you.’
Verse Genesis 30:22. _AND GOD HEARKENED TO HER_] After the severe reproof which Rachel had received from her husband, Genesis 30:2, it appears that she sought God by prayer, and that he heard her; so...
- 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” =גד...
CHAPTER 30 JACOB WITH LABAN _ 1. The sons of Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali (Genesis 30:1)_ 2. The sons of Zilpah: Gad and Asher (Genesis 30:9) 3. The children of Leah: Issachar, Zebulon and Dinah (Genes...
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; Gene
GOD REMEMBERED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. (22-24) Figure of speech _Hysterologia,_ for Joseph born after Naphtali, not after Dinah. This Figure of speech is used to keep Leah's child...
Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24. Birth of Jacob's Children 31 35 (J); Genesis 30:1-24 (J, E and P) In this section is narrated the account of the birth of eleven sons and one daughter. Six of the son...
GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL, &C.— Rachel, grown wiser by her husband's reproof, Genesis 30:2 applied herself to _Him_ who is the _Giver of children;_ and he heard her prayer, and granted her request; delaye...
3. _Jacob's Family_ (Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24). _Basic Facts:_ (1) Jacob became the father of twelve sons and one daughter. The inferior value set on a daughter is displayed in the bare announce...
_AND GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL, AND GOD HEARKENED TO HER, AND OPENED HER WOMB._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 and p...
At last Rachel receives a son, though not by her human devices, but by God's grace and favour....
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 up his des...
(22-24) GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL. — Rachel’s long barrenness had probably humbled and disciplined her; and, cured of her former petulance, she trusts no longer to “love-apples,” but looks to God for the...
וַ יִּזְכֹּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת ־רָחֵ֑ל וַ יִּשְׁ
SONS BORN TO JACOB Genesis 30:1 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 made in...
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 live...
JOSEPH, RACHEL'S FIRSTBORN There are two possible reasons Rachel wanted the mandrakes, a poisonous plant of the potato family. She may have thought they produced fertility, since many in that region s...
Observe Rachel's fretfulness, is by divine grace changed into prayer; for it is said that the Lord hearkened to her. 1 Samuel 1:27....
Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
22._And God remembered Rachel_. Since with God nothing is either _before _or _after_, but all things are present, he is subject to no forgetfulness, so that, in the lapse of time, he should need to be...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 THROUGH 35. I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not possessed; but...
AND GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL,.... In a way of mercy and kindness, whom he seemed to have forgotten, by not giving her children: AND GOD HEARKENED TO HER; to her prayer, which had been made time after ti...
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. Ver. 22. _And God remembered Rachel._] She began to think that God had forgotten her, because she was so long suspended, and...
_God remembered Rachel_ Whom he seemed to have forgotten, and _hearkened to her_, whose prayers had been long denied, and then she _bare a son._ Rachel called her son Joseph, which, in Hebrew, is akin...
1 Rachel in griefe for her barrennesse, giueth Bilhah her mayd vnto Iacob. 5 She beareth Dan and Naphtali. 9 Leah giueth Zilpah her mayd, who beareth Gad and Asher. 14 Reuben findeth Mandrakes, wit...
The Birth of Joseph...
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. It seems, then, that when all her schemes and stratagems failed, she turned to God in fervent and patient prayer, and that the...
SECOND SECTION _Jacob’s wives and children. Jacob and Rachel, Laban’s youngest daughter. First and second treaty with Laban. His involuntary consummation of marriage with Leah. The double marriage. L...
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 word...
14-24 The desire, good in itself, but often too great and irregular, of being the mother of the promised Seed, with the honour of having many children, and the reproach of being barren, were causes of...
No text from Poole on this verse....
These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...
Genesis 30:22 God H430 remembered H2142 (H8799) Rachel H7354 God H430 listened H8085 (H8799) opened H6605 ...
‘And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. And she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” And she called his name Joseph (yoseph), saying, “...
CONTENTS: Jacob's posterity in Padan-aram. Another bargain between Jacob and Laban. CHARACTERS: Rachael, Jacob, Laban, Leah, Joseph. CONCLUSION: The toiling and scheming of men is the result of igno...
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 own h...
_And God remembered Rachel_ GOD’S FAVOUR TOWARDS RACHEL I. IT WAS LONG DELAYER. Discipline. II. IT WAS GRANTED TO HER AFTER SOME SOLEMN LESSONS HAD BEEN LEARNED. 1. Dependence. 2. Patience. 3. F...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 30:22 GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL. On God’s “remembering,” see note on 8:1. GOD HAS TAKEN AWAY MY REPROACH. A woman’s inability to bear children could be inter
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 30:23. My reproach.] That is, the reproach of my barrenness. (See Luke 1:25; 1 Samuel 1:6; Isaiah 4:1,...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 30:14 AND REUBEN (at this time four or five years old) WENT (probably accompanying the reapers) IN THE DAYS OF WHEAT HARVEST, AND FOUND MANDRAKES—דּוּדָאים, μῆλα μαδραγορῶν,_ _(L...
Now when Rachel saw that she could not bare Jacob children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I'm going to die. And Jacob was angry with her: and he said, Am I...
remembered. Genesis 8:1 Genesis 21:1 Genesis 29:31 1 Samuel 1:19 1 Samuel 1:2
God remembered Rachel, whom he seemed to have forgotten, and hearkened to her, whose prayers had been long denied, and then she bare a son. Rachael called her son Joseph, which, in Hebrew, is a — kin...