Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

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Bible References

Maketh

Psalm 68:6

God makes a home for the lonely;
He leads the prisoners into prosperity,
Only the stubborn and rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Genesis 21:5
Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.
Genesis 25:21
Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was unable to conceive children; and the Lord granted his prayer and Rebekah his wife conceived [twins].
Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered [the prayers of] Rachel, and God thought of her and opened her womb [so that she would conceive].
1 Samuel 2:5

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease [to hunger].
Even the barren [woman] gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children withers away.
Isaiah 54:1
“Shout for joy, O barren one, she who has not given birth;
Break forth into joyful shouting and rejoice, she who has not gone into labor [with child]!
For the [spiritual] sons of the desolate one will be more numerous
Than the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord.
Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, because your petition [in prayer] was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written [in the Scriptures],

Rejoice, o barren woman who has not given birth;
Break forth into a [joyful] shout, you who are not in labor;
For the desolate woman has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”

General references

2 Kings 4:17
But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at that season the next year, just as Elisha had said to her.