Then Rachel said, “God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.
Parallel translations
- WEB Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.
- KJV And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
- BSB Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.
- NASB Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son.” Therefore she named him Dan.
- NLT Rachel named him Dan, for she said, “God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son.”
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Rachel names the son Dan, saying God has judged her and heard her plea by giving her a son.
Overview
Rachel sees Dan's birth as God's vindication and answer to her prayer, the name meaning "he has judged." Her words show that she does look to God even while relying on her own scheme. Dan becomes the head of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Cross-references · 11
- Lam 3:59Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
- Ps 43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
- Ps 35:24Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.
- Gen 49:16–17“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
- Gen 29:32–35Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”
- Deut 33:22About Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan.”
- Gen 46:23The son of Dan: Hushim.
- Jer 15:14–20I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.”
- Gen 35:25The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.
- Jer 13:2So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.
- Jer 13:24“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
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