13And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We 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 ( Gen. 30:1 , 2 ), occasioned, not so much by her own barrenness as by her sister’s fruitfulness. Rebekah, the only wife of Isaac, was long childless, and yet we find no uneasiness between her and Isaac; but here, because Leah bears children,…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.