1 Samuel 1:20 Cross References - NSB

²⁰ So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel. She explained: »I asked Jehovah for him.«

²⁵ Adam had intercourse with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth. She said: »God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.«

²⁹ He named him Noah. He said: »He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.«

¹¹ Jehovah’s angel also said: »You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael (means: God hears). Jehovah has heard of your misery.

³² Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, because she said: »Certainly, Jehovah has seen my misery. Now my husband will love me!« ³³ She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: »Certainly, Jehovah has heard that I am unloved. He has also given me this son.« She named him Simeon. ³⁴ She became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: »Now at last my husband will become attached to me because I have given him three sons.« She named him Levi. ³⁵ Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: »This time I will praise Jehovah.« So she named him Judah (Praise). Then she stopped having children.

⁶ Rachel named him Dan, because she said: »God has answered my prayers. He has vindicated me and given me a son.« ⁷ Bilhah and Jacob had a second son. ⁸ Rachel said: »I have struggled hard with my sister, and I have won!« So she named the boy Naphtali. ⁹ When Leah realized she could not have any more children, she let Jacob marry her servant Zilpah. ¹⁰ They had a son. ¹¹ Leah said: »How fortunate. She called him Gad.« ¹² Leah’s slave Zilpah gave birth to her second son for Jacob. ¹³ Leah said: »I am happy, for women will call me blessed. So she named him Asher.« ¹⁴ During the wheat harvest Reuben went out into the fields. He found some mandrake plants. He brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah: »Please, give me some of your son’s mandrake plants.« ¹⁵ Leah replied: »Is it not enough that you took my husband? Are you also going to take my son’s mandrake plants?« Rachel responded: »Very well, Jacob can go to bed with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrake plants.« ¹⁶ Jacob came in from the fields that evening. Leah went out to meet him. »You are to sleep with me,« she said. »You are my reward for my son’s mandrake plants.« So he went to bed with her that night. ¹⁷ God answered Leah’s prayer. She became pregnant and gave birth to her fifth son for Jacob. ¹⁸ Leah said: »God has given me my reward, because I gave my slave to my husband.« So she named him Issachar. ¹⁹ She became pregnant again and gave birth to her sixth son for Jacob. ²⁰ Leah said: »God has presented me with a wonderful gift. This time my husband will honor me, because I have given him six sons.« So she named him Zebulun. ²¹ Later she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.

⁵¹ Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh, because God helped him forget all his troubles and all about his father’s family. ⁵² He named the second son Ephraim, because God made him fruitful in the land where he had suffered.

¹⁰ When he was old enough, she took him to the king’s daughter, who adopted him. She named him Moses because she said: »I pulled him out of the water.«

²² She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom. For he said: »I have been a stranger in a strange land.«

²¹ »She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus (»Jehovah (YHWH) is salvation«), because he will save his people from their sins.«