Genesis 30:1 Cross References - ISV

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!”

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

¹⁶ Rachel Dies in ChildbirthLater, they set out from Beth-el. While still a long way from Ephrathah, Rachel started to have trouble giving birth. ¹⁷ While she was suffering due to her difficult labor, the midwife told her, “Don’t fear! You’re going to have another son.”
¹⁸ Just before she died, Rachel called her son’s name Ben-oni, but his father Jacob named him Benjamin. ¹⁹ So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrathah, also known as Bethlehem.

¹¹ As a result, his brothers became more envious of him. But his father kept thinking about all of this.

¹⁵ If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I’ve found favor in your eyes, because I don’t want to keep staring at all of this misery!”

²⁹ “Are you jealous on account of me?” Moses asked in reply. “I wish all of the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!”

⁴ On the day when Elkanah offered sacrifices, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters, ⁵ but he would give twice as much to Hannah because he loved her.
Now the LORD had closed her womb. ⁶ Her rival would provoke her severely so that she complained loudly because the LORD had closed her womb. ⁷ Elkanah would do this year after year, as often as Hannah went up to the house of the LORD. Likewise, Peninnah would provoke her, and Hannah would cry and would not eat. ⁸ Elkanah her husband told her, “Hannah, why are you crying and why don’t you eat? Why are you upset? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

⁴ and ran for a day’s journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, “Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I’m not better than my ancestors!”

¹ Job Laments the Day He was BornAfter this, Job spoke up solemnly, cursing the day he was born. ² This is what Job said: ³ “Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, ‘It’s a boy!’

¹¹ Why didn’t I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?

²⁰ “Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person: ²¹ To those who are longing for death— even though it does not come? To those who search for it more than for hidden treasure? ²² To those who are happy beyond measure when they reach their graves?

² For wrath will slay a fool; zealous anger will kill the naive.

¹⁹ Who can oppose me? If they do, I’ll be silent and die.

¹⁶ They were envious of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

³⁰ A tranquil mind brings life to one’s body, but jealousy causes one’s bones to rot.

⁴ Then I examined all sorts of work, including all kinds of excellent achievements that create envy in others. This also is pointless and chasing after the wind.

¹⁴ Jeremiah Curses the Day of His BirthLet the day on which I was born be cursed. Don’t let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed is the person who brought the good news to my father, “A baby boy has been born to you,” making him very happy. ¹⁶ May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and a battle cry at noon, ¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant. ¹⁸ Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, and to finish my life living in shame?

³ he left Judea and went back to Galilee.

⁸ since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.

³ That’s because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren’t you?

¹⁰ For having sorrow in a godly way results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

²¹ envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

³ After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop boasting and slandering the truth.

⁵ Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live in us jealously yearns for us?