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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 30:22-24

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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:22

Gen 30:22 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 her prayers not answered. This is a common fault. David bewails it in himself. Psa 77:1-20 Basil grew so weary of the Arian persecution, that once he cried out, An Ecclesias suas prorsus dereliquit Dominus? an novissima hora est? &c. So the Church of old: "Where is thy zeal and thy... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 30:22

remembered: Genesis 8:1, Genesis 21:1, Genesis 29:31, 1 Samuel 1:19, 1 Samuel 1:20, Psalms 105:42 opened: Genesis 30:2, Genesis 21:1, Genesis 21:2, Genesis 25:21, Genesis 29:31, Psalms 113:9, Psalms 127:3 Reciprocal: Genesis 16:2 - the Lord Genesis 19:29 - that God Genesis 29:17 - Rachel Genesis 30:17 - General Genesis 33:2 - Rachel Genesis 35:24 - General Genesis 42:38 - his brother Genesis 43:29 - mother's son Genesis 44:27 - General Genesis 49:22 - a fruitful Ruth 4:13 - the Lord 1... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 30:22

And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.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 to two words of a contrary signification: Asaph, abstulit, he has taken away my reproach, as if the greatest mercy she had in this son were, that she had saved her credit: and Joseph, addidit, the Lord shall add to me another... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 30:22

BIRTH OF JOSEPH, Genesis 30:22-24. 22. God remembered Rachel It would seem from the language of these verses that Rachel’s wrestling with God (comp . Genesis 30:8) had acquired a nobler tone; a more devout and humble trust . God hearkened to her This implies a prevailing prayer on her part, which had probably softened and subdued her spirit, and begotten in her a forgiving disposition towards her rival a quality that impressed itself upon her son. read more