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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But Abram said, "O sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?"

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

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

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

He had two wives; the name of the first was Hannah and the name of the second was Peninnah. Now Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.

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Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)

King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.

So he asked Gehazi, "What can I do for her?" Gehazi replied, "She has no son, and her husband is old."

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.