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Genesis 30:4
Genesis 30:4
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Genesis 30 — OverviewGenesis 30 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIn this chapter we have an account of the increase, I. Of Jacob's
family. Eight children more we find registered in this chapter; Dan and
Naphtali by Bilhah, Rachel's maid, ver. 1-8. Gad and Asher by Zilpah,…Genesis 30 — OverviewGenesis 30 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeGenesis 30:1, Rachel, in grief for her barrenness, gives Bilhah her maid unto Jacob; Genesis 30:5, Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali; Genesis 30:9, Leah gives Zilpah her maid, who bears Gad and Asher; Genesis 30:14, Reuben…Genesis 30 — OverviewGenesis 30 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter gives an account of Rachel's envy of her sister for her fruitfulness, and of her earnest desire of having children, which she expressed to Jacob in an unbecoming manner, for which he reproved her, Ge 30:1,…Genesis 30:1-13Genesis 30:1-13 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe have here the bad consequences of that strange marriage which Jacob
made with the two sisters. Here is,
I. An unhappy disagreement between him and Rachel (v. 1, 2),
occasioned, not so much by her own…Genesis 30:4Genesis 30:4 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd she gave him Bilhah her handmaid,.... To be enjoyed as a wife, though she was no other than a concubine; yet such were sometimes called wives, and were secondary ones, and were under the proper lawful wife, nor did…