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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:14-24

Here is, I. Leah fruitful again, after she had, for some time, left off bearing. Jacob, it should seem, associated more with Rachel than with Leah. The law of Moses supposes it a common case that, if a man had two wives, one would be beloved and the other hated, Deut. 21:15. But at length Rachel's strong passions betrayed her into a bargain with Leah that Jacob should return to her apartment. Reuben, a little lad, five or six years old, playing in the field, found mandrakes, dudaim. It is... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:25-36

We have here, I. Jacob's thoughts of home. He faithfully served his time out with Laban, even his second apprenticeship, though he was an old man, had a large family to provide for, and it was high time for him to set up for himself. Though Laban's service was hard, and he had cheated him in the first bargain he had made, yet Jacob honestly performs his engagements. Note, A good man, though he swear to his own hurt, will not change. And though others have deceived us this will not justify us... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:15

And she said unto her ,.... Leah to Rachel, taking this opportunity to bring out a thing which had some time lain with uneasiness upon her mind: is it a small thing that thou hast taken away my husband ? got the greatest share of his affections, and had most of his company; which last was very probably the case, and more so, since Leah had left off bearing; and this she could not well stomach, and therefore upon this trifling occasion outs with it: and wouldest thou take away my... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:16

And Jacob came out of the field in the evening ,.... From feeding his flocks: and Leah went out to meet him ; knowing full well the time he used to come home: and said, thou must come in unto me ; into her tent, for the women had separate tents from the men; as Sarah from Abraham; and so these wives of Jacob had not only tents separate from his, but from one another: for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes : that is, she had hired that night's lodging with him of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:17

And God hearkened unto Leah ,.... To the prayer of Leah, as the Targum of Jonathan, for more children: the desire of these good women for the company of their husband was not from lust, or an amorous desire in them, but for the sake of having many children, as appears by giving their maids to him; and the reason of this was, as Bishop Patrick well observes, that the promise made to Abraham of the multiplication of his seed, and of the Messiah springing from thence, might be fulfilled; and is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:18

And Leah said, God hath given me my hire ,.... Of the mandrakes with which she had hired of Rachel a night's lodging with Jacob, and for which she had a sufficient recompense, by the son that God had given her: and she added another reason, and a very preposterous one, and shows she put a wrong construction on the blessing she received: because I have given my maiden to my husband ; which, she judged, was so well pleasing to God, that he had rewarded her with another son: and she... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:19

And Leah conceived again ,.... For bearing children Jacob took more to her, and more frequently attended her apartment and bed: and bare Jacob a sixth son ; the sixth by her, but the tenth by her and his two maids. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:20

And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry ,.... Having so many children; for though her husband could give her nothing at marriage, and her father gave her no more than one handmaid, yet God had abundantly made it up to her, in giving her so many sons: these are the heritage of the Lord, Psalm 127:3 , now will my husband dwell with me ; constantly; and not come to her tent now and then only, as he had used to do: because I have borne him six sons ; this she thought... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:21

And afterwards she bare a daughter ,.... Which some writers, as Aben Ezra observes, say, was at the same birth with Zebulun, a twin with him; but being said to be afterwards shows the contrary: and called her name Dinah ; which signifies "judgment": perhaps she may have some reference to the first son of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, whom she called Dan, a name of the same signification; intimating as if it was a clear case that judgment went on her side; and that by the number of children... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:22

And God remembered Rachel ,.... In a way of mercy and kindness, whom he seemed to have forgotten, by not giving her children: and God hearkened to her ; to her prayer, which had been made time after time, that she might have children; but hitherto God had delayed to answer, but now gives one: and opened her womb ; gave her conception, and made her fruitful, and she became the mother of a child she so much desired. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:14-24

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:25-36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:22

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