Luke 1:7

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Summary

Luke 1:7

And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.

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Bible References

They had

And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.

Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.

Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children.

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Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.

So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;