Genesis 11:30 Cross References - ISV

³⁰ Sarai was barren, so she had not borne children.

² But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, what can you give me since I continue to be childless, and the heir of my household is Eliezer from Damascus? ³ Look!” Abram said, “You haven’t given me any offspring, so a servant born in my house is going to be my heir.”

¹ Sarai, Hagar, and IshmaelNow Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar. ² So Sarai told Abram, “You are well aware that the LORD has prevented me from giving birth to a child. Go have sex with my servant, so that I may possibly bear a son through her.”
Abram listened to Sarai’s suggestion,

¹¹ Abraham and Sarah were old—really old—and Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing. ¹² That’s why Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I’m so old and my husband is old, too, am I going to have sex?”

¹ Isaac is BornThe LORD came to Sarah, just as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. ² Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the very time that God had told him.

²¹ Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, since she was unable to conceive children, and the LORD responded to him—his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

³¹ Leah’s ChildrenLater, the LORD noticed that Leah was being neglected, so he made her fertile, while Rachel remained childless.

¹ Rachel’s Children by BilhahRachel noticed that she was not bearing children for Jacob, so because she envied her sister Leah, she told Jacob, “If you don’t give me sons, I’m going to die!”
² That made Jacob angry with Rachel, so he asked her, “Can I take God’s place, who has not allowed you to conceive?”

² There was one man from Zorah, from the family of the descendants of Dan, whose name was Manoah. Since his wife was infertile, she hadn’t borne children.

² He had two wives; the name of one was Hannah and the name of the other was Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

⁹ He makes the barren woman among her household a happy mother of joyful children. Hallelujah!

⁷ They had no children because Elizabeth was barren and because both of them were getting old.

³⁶ And listen! Elizabeth, your relative, has herself conceived a son in her old age, this woman who was rumored to be barren is in her sixth month.