Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Bible References
They had
Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, “Lord God, what can You give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Genesis 16:1
Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
Genesis 25:21
Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
Judges 13:2
There was a certain man from Zorah, from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoah; his wife was unable to conceive and had no children.
1 Samuel 1:2
He had two wives, the first named Hannah and the second Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.
Well
Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?”
Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
1 Kings 1:1
Now King David was old and getting on in years. Although they covered him with bedclothes, he could not get warm.
2 Kings 4:14
So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?”
Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
Romans 4:19
He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about 100 years old) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb, without weakening in the faith.
Hebrews 11:11
By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the One who had promised was faithful.