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 draws after it a third of the stars in the heavens, and it hurled them down on the earth. The Dragon is standing in front of the woman who is about to give birth to the child, so that he may devour it as soon as it is born.
John 16:21
A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.
Galatians 4:19
You for whom I am again enduring a mother's pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been formed in you.

General references

Matthew 2:7
Then Herod secretly sent for the Astrologers, and ascertained from them the date of the appearance of the star;