Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

General references

Bible References

Travailing

Revelation 12:4
his tail swept the third part of the stars of heaven; and cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered, in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.
John 16:21
a woman when she is in travail, is afflicted at the approach of her pains: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, the remembrance of her anguish, is lost in her joy, that a man is born into the world.
Galatians 4:19
my dear children, how am I in pain, till Christ be formed in you?

General references

Matthew 2:7
Then Herod having privately sent for the Magi, enquired of them the exact time when the star appeared.