Genesis 25:21

Webster's Bible (1833)

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

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  • 1 Chr 5:20 : 20 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
  • 2 Chr 33:13 : 13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God.
  • Ezra 8:23 : 23 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
  • Gen 11:30 : 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.
  • Rom 9:10-12 : 10 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. 11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, 12 it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."
  • Gen 15:2-3 : 2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
  • Gen 16:2 : 2 Sarai said to Abram," See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
  • Gen 17:16-19 : 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her." 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" 18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" 19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac.{Isaac means "he laughs."} I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
  • 1 Sam 1:2 : 2 and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
  • 1 Sam 1:11 : 11 She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.
  • 1 Sam 1:27 : 27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him:
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
  • Ps 65:2 : 2 You who hear prayer, To you all men will come.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
  • Ps 145:19 : 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
  • Prov 10:24 : 24 What the wicked fear, will overtake them, But the desire of the righteous will be granted.
  • Isa 45:11 : 11 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command you me.
  • Isa 58:9 : 9 Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;
  • Isa 65:24 : 24 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

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  • 22 The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

  • Gen 25:19-20
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    19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

    20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

  • Gen 20:17-18
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    17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.

    18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • 35 They grieved Isaac and Rebekah's spirits.

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    6 Isaac lived in Gerar.

    7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she was beautiful to look on.

    8 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

  • 10 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

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    66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

    67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

  • Gen 21:2-3
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    2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

    3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.{Isaac means "He laughs."}

  • 19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac.{Isaac means "he laughs."} I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

  • 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

  • 12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

  • 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

  • 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

  • 27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him:

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

  • 51 Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."

  • 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

  • 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

  • 15 It happened, before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

  • 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

  • 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

  • 5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

  • 21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."

  • 25 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.