25Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
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And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. …
And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. …
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. …
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-25)The two preceding evangelists had agreed to begin the gospel with the baptism of John and his ministry, which commenced about six months before our Saviour’s public ministry (and now, things being near a crisis, six months was a deal of time, which before was but a little ), and therefore this evangelist, designing to give a more particular account than had been given of our Saviour’s conception a…
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