Genesis 30:2 KJV [2] And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.30.2.KJV
The issues of the fruit 🥝 of the womb carried on for generations but Javon the swindler hedged his odds with his multiple wives.Till finally his real love could birth. Though shi died out of this same issue of child birth.
Genesis 30:3 KJV [3] And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.30.3.KJV
Two generations ago the same decision was made and it resulted in issues.Though in this story we are not told that bilhah detested Rachel.Well maybe because there were already 4 kids in the house so her child 🧒 was not really so unique
Genesis 30:12-13 KJV [12] And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son. [13] And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.30.12-13.KJV
See the humility of these maids earned their children a name in the 12 tribes of Israel 🇮🇱; and an eternal heritage because they stayed humble and accepted that their children 🧒 should be reckoned to their mistresses.In making this sacrifices little did they know the eternal ramifications for them.Today 4000 years down the line and the good lord has kept his word
Genesis 30:16 KJV [16] And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.30.16.KJV
😇 Interesting proceeding… Already Jacob Did not favour Leah and now it appears he had stopped sleeping with her 😴
Genesis 30:24 KJV [24] and she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.30.24.KJV
HE WHO WAS SEPARATE FROM HIS BRETHREN
Genesis 30:26 KJV [26] Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.30.26.KJV
Sad, 😔 Jacob had been so cheated and was content 😊 to go back home empty handed except with his wives and children 🧒.That was enough for him
Genesis 30:41 KJV [41] And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.30.41.KJV
Where did Jacob get this technology from. It was from heaven.His time for the blessings to speak had come.And speaking it did… Massively
Having now overdone His part of the vow God asked Jacob to return, yes return to the place of the vow.It was time to move, 2 decades had passed and God had been faithful through out.
Genesis 31:13 KJV [13] I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.31.13.KJV
Having now overdone His part of the vow God asked Jacob to return, yes return to the place of the vow.
It was time to move, 2 decades had passed and God had been faithful through out
Genesis 31:15 KJV [15] Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.31.15.KJV
Laban, was so profit conscious and shrewd. He loved gain, he gave Rebecca out after having received some gifts.Now he gave his two daughters out for service and he was rich by it.
Genesis 31:19 KJV [19] And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s. https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.31.19.KJV
The shadows and strongholds of the past.This polytheist breed. She saw the God of bethel obviously as one of the many god options.She did not know he was the True God. After Noah man had so strayed from the truth that now men worshiped all sorts of gods.It is believed in the African tradionional religion that these gods lead to thr Supreme oneCould it be that Rachael took thr gods so her father could not divine 🔮 by these
Genesis 31:29 KJV [29] It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.31.29.KJV
So after this warning ⚠ this is labans version of not speaking good or bad.How did Laban know that this was thr god of Isaac.Except that God might have introduced himself as thr God of Abraham isaac and Jacob
Genesis 31:38 KJV [38] This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.31.38.KJV
Twenty years of honest labour
Genesis 31:53 KJV [53] The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.31.53.KJV
What was this fear of Isaac he kept saying.He mentions the God of Abraham but says the fear of Isaac