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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 בא _bā'_ _...
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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;
Genesis 30:9 is from J, Genesis 30:1; Genesis 30:8 is from E,...
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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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_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
example of Sarah with regard to Hagar, an example which is...
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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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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 de...
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וַ תִּתֶּן ־לֹ֛ו אֶת ־בִּלְהָ֥ה
שִׁפְחָתָ֖הּ לְ אִשָּׁ֑ה וַ יָּבֹ֥א
אֵלֶ֖יהָ יַעֲקֹֽב׃...
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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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_Marriage. The Manichees condemned Jacob for having more than four
wives at once. But St. Augustine replied, it was not then unusual or
forbidden. He took the two last only at the pressing instigation...
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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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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; bu...
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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, and were secondary ones, and were under the proper
la...
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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
yielded to that which he could not but disallow as evil....
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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 Sons of Bilhah and Zilpah...
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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 30:4 gave H5414 (H8799) Bilhah H1090 maid H8198 wife H802
Jacob H3290 in H935 (H8799)
to wife - Genesis 16:3, Genesis 21:10, Genesis 22:24, Genesis 25:1,
Genesis 25:6,...
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‘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 handmaid as a wife and Jacob went in to her.'
“GO IN...
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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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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 30:3 Because of her barrenness, Rachel
offers Jacob her servant BILHAH as a substitute wife (v. Genesis
30:3). This was a common practice in ancient Near Eastern culture.
Abrah...
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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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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...