Genesis 11:30

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.

He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

If the woman isn’t defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive offspring.

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,

About Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan.”

Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.

The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”

He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.”

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.