6And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
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O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. …
And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. …
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,…
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