Verse 1

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 29:31 : 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 37:11 : 11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
  • Num 11:29 : 29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
  • 1 Sam 1:4-8 : 4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. 6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. 7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. 8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
  • Job 3:1-3 : 1 After this opened his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
  • Job 3:11 : 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
  • Job 13:19 : 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
  • Ps 106:16 : 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
  • John 4:3 : 3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
  • John 4:8 : 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
  • Gen 35:16-19 : 16 And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. 17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. 18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.