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- 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...
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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...
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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
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ZILPAH.... WIFE. This was strictly in accordance with the Code of
Khammurabi, 145. Compare Genesis 16:1; Genesis 30:3; Genesis 30:4. See
App-15....
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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...
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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...
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_WHEN LEAH SAW THAT SHE HAD LEFT BEARING, SHE TOOK ZILPAH HER MAID,
AND GAVE HER JACOB TO WIFE._
Leah ... took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. Leah took
the same course as Rachel had don...
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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...
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‘Dan’ means ‘he gave his judgement’.
‘Naphtali’ means ‘struggle’.
‘Gad’ means ‘fortunately’.
‘Asher’ means ‘happy’.
V14 At the time when people harvest wheat, Reuben went out into the
field. He fo...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 30
JACOB HAS 6 MORE SONS
V1 Rachel saw that she produced no children for Jacob. And she was
angry with her sister because her sister was successf...
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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...
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(9-13) LEAH... TOOK ZILPAH... — By ceasing to bear, Leah had lost
her one hold upon her husband’s affection, and to regain it she
follows Rachel’s example. The struggle of these two women for the
husb...
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וַ תֵּ֣רֶא לֵאָ֔ה כִּ֥י עָמְדָ֖ה מִ
לֶּ֑דֶת
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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...
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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...
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Rachel and Jacob were naturally frustrated by her inability to bear
children. Like Sarah before her, Rachel chose to have a child through
her handmaid, Bilhah. The son born of the handmaid was named D...
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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...
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9._When Leah saw that she had left bearing. _Moses returns to Leah,
who, not content with four sons, devised a method whereby she might
always retain her superior rank: and therefore she also, in turn...
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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...
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WHEN LEAH SAW THAT SHE HAD LEFT BEARING,.... For a little while, for
she afterwards bore again, and observing also what her sister had
done;
SHE TOOK ZILPAH HER MAID, AND GAVE HER JACOB TO WIFE: in t...
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When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and
gave her Jacob to wife.
Ver. 9. _Left bearing,_] viz., Till she began again, Genesis 30:17 ....
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Rachel had absurdly and preposterously put her maid into her husband's
bed; and now Leah, because she missed one year in bearing children,
doth the same, to be even with her. See the power of rivalshi...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1-13 Rachel envied her sister: envy is grieving at the good of
another, than which no sin is more hateful to God, or more hurtful to
our neighbours and ourselves. She considered not that God made the...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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...
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Genesis 30:9 Leah H3812 saw H7200 (H8799) stopped H5975 (H8804)
bearing H3205 (H8800) took H3947 ...
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‘When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing she took Zilpah her
handmaid and gave her to Jacob for a wife. And Zilpah, Leah's
handmaid, bore Jacob a second son. And Leah said, “It is fortunate
(gad).'...
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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...
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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...
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_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 a despairing view of life.
3. She failed rightly to rec...
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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 good as
dead. An old Jewish proverb says, “The childles...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 30:1
AND WHEN RACHEL SAW (apparently after, though probably before, the
birth of Leah's fourth son) THAT SHE BARE JACOB NO CHILDREN
(literally, _that she bare not to Jacob_),_ _RAC...
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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...
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A.M. 2256. B.C. 1748. left. Genesis 30:17 Genesis 29:35 gave her.
Genesis 30:4 Genesis 16:3...
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Rachel had done that absurd and preposterous thing of putting her maid
into her husband's bed, and now Leah (because she missed one year in
bearing children) doth the same, to be even with her. See th...