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. Furthermore, I will give you a son from her. I will bless her, so that nations, kings, and people will come from her."

Then one of them said, "I will certainly return to you in about a year's time. By then, your wife Sarah will have borne a son."

since the LORD had made all the women barren in Abimelech's household on account of Abraham's wife Sarah.

Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, since she was unable to conceive children, and the LORD responded to him his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

That made Jacob angry with Rachel, so he asked her, "Can I take God's place, who has not allowed you to conceive?"

Children are a gift from the LORD; a productive womb, the LORD's reward.

Obtain children

Rachel responded, "Here's my handmaid Bilhah. Go have sex with her. She can bear children on my knees so I can have children through her."

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and children belong to her master, and he is to go out by himself.

Then all of the assembled people, including the elders who were there, said, "We are witnesses! May the LORD make this woman who enters your house like Rachel and Leah, who together established the house of Israel. May you prosper in Ephrathah, and may you excel in Bethlehem!

Hearkened

Now the Shining One was more clever than any animal of the field that the LORD God had made. He asked the woman, "Did God actually say, "You are not to eat from any tree of the garden'?"

General references

since the LORD had made all the women barren in Abimelech's household on account of Abraham's wife Sarah.