Genesis 30:2

2Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, awho has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Genesis 33:5

5And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, b“The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Ruth 4:11-14

11Then all the people who were cat the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, dwho together ebuilt up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in fEphrathah and gbe renowned in Bethlehem, 12and may your house be like the house of Perez, hwhom Tamar bore to Judah, because iof the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

Ruth and Boaz Marry

13So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, jand the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. 14 kThen the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without la redeemer, and may his name mbe renowned in Israel!

1 Samuel 1:20

20And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”
 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard of God


1 Samuel 1:27

27For this child I prayed, oand the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.

1 Samuel 2:20-21

20Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the Lord give you children by this woman pfor the petition she asked of the Lord.” So then they would return to their home.

21 qIndeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. rAnd the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 25:5

5All these were the sons of Heman sthe king’s seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

1 Chronicles 26:4-5

4And tObed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth, 5Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth, ufor God blessed him.
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