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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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_AND GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL, AND GOD HEARKENED TO HER, AND OPENED HER
WOMB._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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At last Rachel receives a son, though not by her human devices, but by
God's grace and favour....
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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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God made Rachel able to have children. The *mandrakes did not do it.
(See verse 14 and the comment.)
‘Joseph’ means ‘let him add’.
JACOB BECOMES WEALTHY
V25 After Joseph was born to Rachel, Jacob...
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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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(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...
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וַ יִּזְכֹּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת ־רָחֵ֑ל
וַ יִּשְׁ
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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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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...
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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....
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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The Birth of Joseph...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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‘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,
“...
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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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_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...
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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
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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,...
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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...
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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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remembered. Genesis 8:1 Genesis 21:1 Genesis 29:31 1 Samuel 1:19 1
Samuel 1:2
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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...