Thematic Bible: Bilhah


Thematic Bible



Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living. But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit? Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her. read more.
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan. And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son. And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali.

The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali;

And the son of Dan was Hushim. And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.

And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman. Verse ConceptsMaids

Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her. So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them. Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept StockHalf brothersParents Being Wrong

Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it. Verse ConceptsIncestConcubinesThe Number TwelveImmorality, Examples Of SexualExtra Marital Sex ExamplesTwelve Beingssex

But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean. Verse ConceptsFicklenessRash People

Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem;

And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem

And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

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