Genesis 16:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

The lord

Obtain children

Genesis 30:3

Exodus 21:4

Ruth 4:11

Hearkened

Genesis 3:1

General references

Genesis 20:18

Bible References

The lord

I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

The Lord said, “I will certainly come back to you in about a year’s time, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

for the Lord had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children from you?”

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
children, a reward.

Obtain children

Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me

so that through her I too can build a family.”

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.

The elders and all the people who were at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

Hearkened

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”

General references

for the Lord had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.