Genesis 30:1-43 ESV

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:1-43

Chapter 30Now 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 in God's place, who hath withheld thee from the fruit of the womb ( Genesis 30:1-2 )?So here's some hard feelings and harsh words between husband and wife because Rachel feels the disgrace of not being able to bear children.And so she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 30:1-43

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 hands the four grand keys of nature. First, the key of life or generation; secondly, the key of bread; thirdly, the key of rain, Deuteronomy 28:12; fourthly, the key of the grave, or resurrection from the dead. Ezekiel 37:12. Those favours of posterity are to be asked in prayer, and with all... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:1-13

Genesis 30:1-13Rachel envied her sister.Rachel’s impatienceI. 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 recognize the true Author of all good things. II. IT LED TO THE ADOPTION OF WRONG EXPEDIENTS. Showing impatient haste of unbelief, and a want of confidence in God. III. IT HAD AN INFLUENCE FOR EVIL. 1. Upon her own character. Boasting (Genesis 30:6; Genesis 30:8). 2. Upon her sister (Genesis... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:8

Genesis 30:8With great wrestlings have I wrestledGreat wrestlingsThus speaks Rachel; and this woman’s experience, multiplied as it is a thousand-fold in hearts that never told their struggles, shows us that life is not so calm as it seems.Beneath many a placid stream there are deep and dangerous under-currents. Often a quiet face hides the deep things, which even the dearest intimacies cannot draw out, and which constitute the tragedies of the heart’s history. It is well that we learn the need... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:22-24

Genesis 30:22-24And God remembered RachelGod’s favour towards RachelI.IT WAS LONG DELAYER. Discipline. II. IT WAS GRANTED TO HER AFTER SOME SOLEMN LESSONS HAD BEEN LEARNED. 1. Dependence. 2. Patience. 3. Faith and hope. III. IT AWAKENED GRATITUDE. 1. Grateful recognition of God’s dealings (verse23). 2. Heartfelt acknowledgment of God (Genesis 30:24). (T. H. Leale.) read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:25

Genesis 30:25Send me away that I may go unto mine own place, and to my countryThe lights of homeThere is in Switzerland a hill known as the Heimweh Fluh, or Home-sick Mount.It is so called because it is usually the last spot visited by the traveller when leaving that part of the country at a time when his thoughts are turned homeward. It commands a glorious view of the whole valley of Interlaken, with its fields and pastures, its villages and lakes, with a back-ground of snow-capped mountains.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:27

Genesis 30:27I have learned by experienceMoral and religious lessons gained by experienceThe words are Laban’s, and, taken in their connection, they intimate that even an utterly wordly man, such as he was, may be forced to acknowledge the moral providence of God, whereby He takes especial and peculiar care of His servants.Look at the moral and religious lessons which a thoughtful man may learn by experience. I. We learn by experience MUCH THAT IS WHOLESOME ABOUT OURSELVES. By the blunders we... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:28-43

Genesis 30:28-43Appoint me thy wages, and I will give itJacob’s new contract of serviceI.IT WAS ENTERED UPON IN OPPOSITION TO HIS BETTER FEELINGS AND CONVICTIONS. II. IT WAS MARKED BY WORLDLY PRUDENCE. 1. The prudence which calculates. 2. The prudence which takes advantage of superior knowledge. (T. H.Leale.)Lawful diligence blessedA Divine benediction is always invisibly breathed on painful and lawful diligence. Thus the servant employed in making and blowing of the fire, though sent away... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:1

Gen 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. Ver. 1. Give me children, or elso I die. ] She was sick of the fret; and could not live, unless Jacob could cure her. "Envy is the rottenness of the bones," Pro 14:30 and ever devours itself first; as the worm doth the nut out of which it groweth. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:2

Gen 30:2 And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? Ver. 2. And Jacob’s anger was kindled.] He that will be angry, and not sin, must not be angry, but for sin. Reprove thy wife, thou mayest; chide her, thou mayest not, unless the offence be against God, as here, and Job 2:10 . And here a man may carry a severe rebuke in his countenance, as God doth, Psalms 80:16 , though he say nothing: he may chide with... read more

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:1-43

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 30:1-43

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:1-13

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:8

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:22-24

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:25

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:27

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 30:28-43

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:2

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