CHILDLESSNESS

Passages on this topic · 9

• Genesis 16:2

  Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah 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.”

• Genesis 30:1

  When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

• Genesis 30:2

  Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

• Genesis 30:3

  She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

• Genesis 30:13

  Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

• 1 Samuel 1:6

  Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• Isaiah 4:1

  Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

• Luke 1:25

  “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”