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

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And Abram answered, "LORD Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? I go childless, and the cater of mine house, this Eliezer of Damascus, hath a son."

Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children. But she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

And Isaac made intercession unto the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead."

And there was a man in Zorah of the kindred of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was barren and bare not.

which had two wives, the one called Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

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And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sara, that is ninety years old, bear?"

Abraham and Sara were both old and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner as it is with wives.

When king David was waxen old and stricken in years, though they covered him with clothes, yet he caught no heat.

Then he said, "What is to be done for her?" And Gehazi said, "Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old."

And he fainted not in the faith, nor yet considered his own body, which was now dead, even when he was almost a hundred years old: neither yet that Sara was past childbearing.

Through faith Sarah also received strength to be with child, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful which had promised.