Dear Lord, fill my heart with gratitude for the blessings you've bestowed upon me. Help me to recognize and appreciate the beauty and abundance in my life.
She gave a self-fulfilling prophecy, "Give me children, or else I'll die". When Jacob was dying and giving final instruction he said to bury him in the cave where Leah was buried showing Jacob realized that God's chosen bride for him was Leah, especially since Judah was from her.
Yours is the most accurate comment because people don't often realize that there is divine ordering to even God choosing your spouse. This doesn't apply to every marriage, but Leah was chosen to bear Judah. Jacob might have preferred Rachel, but God ordained Leah for Jacob. Anything other than what God has divinely ordained will have to die.
Now the grace of God is showing in that Jacobs favorite son Joseph was chosen to save the Jews during the famine, so God didn't just let Joe or Benji not have insignificance.
But for me, the key word here is "or". I believe her words were simply that her longing to be a Mother was overbearing, and if she did not give birth, she could die from sorrow, or just simply could not go on in that way. I certainly don't know for sure, but stealing, and lying to your Father, and allowing someone else, (let alone your husband), take the fall, will definitely cause you to reap hardship. And the scriptures made it a point to say the sisters were constantly competing against each other. This has to be distracting for a man of God who needs to be near to God to hear his voice and know what his path should be. 💞
I'll give a vote for idolatry as the cause of her death because she stole those pagan god statues. She was risking her life to keep those and that act didn't please our true God.
True that was the reason. The God of her husband was the true God and once married to him she should have worshiped him alongside her husband, but she chose the gods of her father. Also her stealing from her father put everyone in the camp of Jacob, as her father Laban wanted to use this as an excuse to capture Jacob and return him back with them. Keeping him around to work for Laban for many more years. If it wasn't for God Warning him against any harm to Jacob..
Heavenly Father, in times of uncertainty, I turn to you as my rock and my refuge. Grant me the clarity of mind to make wise decisions and the faith to trust in your plan, knowing that you are always with me.
We can't have idles unfortunately sometimes it brings curses but God still saves the soul . Look what happened to king david? I backslid for 7 yrs and I'm a very sick women I've been suffering from sinning ever since I left God. It's by his grace I'm still living. Thank you Jesus for your grace and mercy
I think Rachael died in childbirth due to a breech birth since the midwife told her not to worry because she was having a son. The baby's head comes first and there was no way of seeing that it was a boy if the head would have been first.
100% correct breech birth Secret things belong to LORD If possible we can ask GOD Why HE took her & furthermore risk on breech is really high for fetus Suffocation! Shoulder dystopia or CPD. Head or shoulder get stuck! Either way mom died & they do today too! During before or after !
Another possible explanation is that bearing children became Rachel’s obsession or idol. More important to her than God Himself, perhaps. And He will sometimes separate people from anything more important to them than Himself, according to His perfect plan. I also cannot help but notice that Jacob’s only legitimate wife was now Leah, whom he had not loved nor respected nor appreciated during Rachel’s lifetime.
In my opinion, I think it is more on Scientific basis, considering the harsh condition of the dessert, the hardship of travels under scorching heat, the very limited method of child birth delivery, and perhaps Rachel's age. If it is due to a curse, then it should have happened soon enough. But we can never easily tell or nor just judge every events. Everything happened may have been allowed by God for some good reasons only He knew. As others say "In God's time". If we're going to bring out the details point by point, this will go to a very long narrative. But the bottomline of these all is that... God, our heavenly Father, is indeed, and always have been very merciful.
Rachel was cursed by her father for her father chose her sister to get married first to Jacob and then had Jacob repeat another 7 year cycle with Leah which left Rachel feeling insecure for she was getting older. Why would her father hold her marriage from Jacob I think he favored Leah more. It also seemed that Rachel was trying to fit in by having kids at a later age. Her father it seems wanted Leah to have a family with Jacob and had cursed the the divine love between Jacob and Rachel. Her father was an idol worshipper, so his own selfish reasons and greed persuaded Jacob to marry Leah. The two sons of Rachel were blessed by God and became leaders.
Thank you, very educational and touching. Keep up good work👏 Who can explore God's strange design? Nobody, God is unsearchable. Blessed be God forever 🙏
I'm not sure which of them could have cause her death. But I personally believe that she shoud have walked away from the relationship, seeing her Sister had married him. Even though Leah married Jacob through deception. She was still considered is wife and she was honored by God. Her son Judah were given kingly lineage and the promise Messiah came from her and the Priest hood also. She was the only one that was buried with the family and there is so much more that can be said. what I do believe is that God's plan was for Jacob to have one wife, and being the first wife she was honored by God.
Care should be taken in rendering a response like this. Think about the fact that Saul from the tribe of Benjamin was the first king over Israel. Likewise, Paul, the apostle, was also from the tribe of Benjamin. Again, it was the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, which were the combined tribes, forming the Jewish nation. Also, precious little, if anything, has been said about Joseph, who was used to save them from famine, and on whom was conferred the ultimate patriarchal blessing from his father, Jacob. These guys were Rachel's sons. Maybe she had developed a heart condition, occasioned by her longing for motherhood, that this second birth took her breath away.
@@georgebrown4419interesting. Women were so expected to produce children back then that it was considered a curse when they didn’t. Imagine the mourning and stress that caused her physically. Extreme stress and sadness do affect the heart. When we live in constant stress, worry, shame and guilt it definitely affects our health in terrible ways.
Was God plans. Was wonderful and pleasant to listen the story of Rachel in beautiful way related . Thank you very much for your hard work to relate us the Bible story . God bless You
Rachel disobeyed God when it came to idols. Initially stealing the Father's idols and then refusing to hand it over to him, when he came looking for it and allowed Jacob to pronounce a judgment on her unwittingly and unknowingly. Secondly in Genesis 35:11And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother. 2.Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 4And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. ----------------- Rachel tenaciously hung on to her idols maybe? Because if she did turn over her father's idols, it would have shown that she had both lied to her father and to Jacob. In the same chapter, soon after putting away the idols by Jacob's people, Deborah, Rebekah's nurse died. Followed by Rachel died. Maybe Deborah knew of Rebekah's secret and kept silent? Rachel was struck soon after that? It is too much of a coincidence that putting away or discarding the idols and Rachel's nurse and she dying. It really points to idolatry without stating it in words.
Only God knows , we as humans can only speculate, we need to just trust God's sovereign will in everything even if we do not understand it , that is why He is God and we are but humans.
God makes things very difficult for His Chosen, I am Benjamen, Ricky Eugene Woods, the coming Elijah, blessed by God; Rachel is my mother, and I am proud to be her son, blessed be God Almighty. Rachel, weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted. God is weeping for His children, refused to be comforted.
Nice work and opinions. I think Rachel loving her father Idols shaped her sad destiny. She could conceive more children like her sister Leah if she get rid of her loving idolatry. Leah had faith and trust on Jacob's God (Her words after every child made clear) Finaly she PRAISED her God (became her God) by Judah. I never heard anything godly sayings from Rachel,
My cousin had a horrible death. She was a lifelong Christian. And one day she found a lump on her breast. Even though she was a nurse, she decided to pray it away. It was cancer that spread to her brain. She had the most horrible death.
Where in the Bible does it say Leah conspired to marry Jacob? All it says is that her father sent her in to Jacob. Do you think she was given a choice? She knew who Jacob loved. And the implication is Jacob was so drunk he didn't even notice he was with the wrong woman. Quite an insult to both women. Laban was obsessed with Rachel? What is that even supposed to mean?
Stop being emotional. Many drunk men have woken up to something they were ashamed of or duped into. 🤭 As for Leah, her father Laban kept pushing her onto Jakob because the culture practices were that the oldest was to be married before the younger sibling(s).
God is in charge of man's destiny. If we choose to worship Him, we get the rewards of obedience. If we choose not to obey Him, we get that rewards. Rachel chose her path. God had a plan for the line of Jacob. What would happen to poor Joseph and Benjamin if Rachel was there to influence them with idol worshipping? God knows best. He is a God of love❤
I always feel so sad that Jacob and Rachel could not simply marry- like young people in love...why did this awful deception happen? Leah also suffered so much. Only I understand that God always brings good out of failure. So Leah had 3 sons with failings and a 4th , Judah, who developed character and was judged worthy to be the ancestor of Yeshua the Saviour! This is one of those mysteries. Joseph the exemplary son was not the chosen ancestor....Judah the reformed son of the rejected wife was .Can it be to fulful; a man of sorrows and rejected by men So He came from the rejected and sorrowful wife?
I think Rachel died because Benjamin was breech. The midwife said to not despair because she was birthing another son. The only way she would know that is if he was born butt first. Breech births are extremely difficult and, in the absence of medical intervention, can be deadly for the mother. As these were ancient times, there were no adequate medical interventions available. But I have to wonder why the midwife didn't notice it sooner and try to turn the baby around.
I'm with the first theory. Jacob was one of God's chosen. His words have more power than others due to that status. And being that close to God when he cast that curse on the person who stole Laban's pagan idols, it stuck big time. That theory rings true to me because I've had similar happen to me. I was not ready for a child that had been given to me, and was casting all sorts of hatred onto it due to the stress I was feeling. I was scared and frightened...enough where God heard that cry and I miscarried. He then placed another child in my life...after I was ready to have a kid with my husband and now it seems he REALLY wants this kid to be raised righteously. He hasn't been officially baptized and he refuses to grow, even if he's a happy little guy. I'm going to have him baptized and see where things go. God is definitely working in my life. I'm just a stubborn piece of clay that sometimes refuses to cooperate!
Leah deceived Jacob. (Not telling him that she is Leah at the wedding). She also should have died as punishment if Rachel indeed died as punishment for deceiving Jacob. (Not telling him that SHE stole the idols)
It makes so much more sense now why all Josephs brothers hated him, watching their Mother Leah grow unloved by their father, and then due to his love for Rebecca the first son she gave him was Joseph and his delight showed when he gave him that pretty colored rode eh? hmm, wow Glory Be To God.
It’s interesting that Leah who was not the wife Jacob wanted became the woman God chose through whom Jesus the Messiah came. Was Leah Gods choice for Jacob but Jacob didn’t want what God wanted but what he wanted?
Jakob got it all back since he conned his twin brother Esau with his birthright. Remember Esau the hunter was favoured with his father Isaac when it came to his food craving. Jakob was favoured by his mother Rebekkah - the one who encouraged Jakob to deceive his father and brother.
women die in child birth all the time it was very common then, she did wrong but who didn't in this world look at Jackob - it was an event that happend
My Dad named me Rachel … because he loved the name. I believe it was just because God intended her to die during birth , lots of women did during those times . Ironically my brother’s name is Benjamin.
In order to have everlasting life you absolutely must trust in the person and finished work of Christ alone for salvation 💕 this means that saving repentance is turning from unbelief to belief.
Also we pray that Gods will be done,do we always know what Gods will is in everything? No, that is where faith comes in, we believe that God always knows what He is doing whether we understand what He is doing or not.
Rachel drew the short stick. God coddled Leah and her whining and con to be the wife of a man who didnt want her. Jacob and his cons, Laben and his cons. Then God finally remembered Rachel (she was never a priorty, small potatoes for later).I've noticed that if your knit with a big heart ( his knitting) and get hurt its your fault for not having boundaries but if you set boundaries your unloving. All manipulations. Wonder what would have happened if Rachel went rogue and sold Leah since she liked to pretend to be someone else. Life at home would probably would have been calmer and a better birthing. Poor Rachel...Everyone in the game won but her.
The curse might be from the household "thing" she took from her father and concealed "it" by sitting on "it" during her menstruation. The "thing" I'm mentioning here was the shrunken head of a first born male with a brass or copper leaf engraved with incantation slid under "his" mouth and fed with blood during certain times in a year, which was prevalence in that time in Syria and still being practiced in India. She took it from Laban to prevent him from knowing the whereabout of fleeing Jacob. The accursed "thing" spoke and still speaks events of future. The only mistake she did was to sit on it and more grievous was during her menstruation, which is akin to blood fed the accursed object. It affected her womb severely. I believe even when birthing Joseph (the first born of Rachel) she must've gone through severe difficulty.
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"The children shall suffer the sins of the father". This all falls on laban. He was down right nasty and deceitful. To deceive jacob like that was the initial strike against God. Jacob didnt idolize rachel. He worked hard gavd his word and laban used him. Lied to him. Forced him to marry his eldest. Leah is no saint either. She conspired with her father to deceive jacob. More than likely out of jealousy. And labans obsession with rachel was more than likely rooted in some sick fantasy. Leaving laban to watch her suffer giving birth to children that would hate him. His legacy forever ruined.
Secret things belong to YAWEH! We alll gonna die or be raptured up ! ….& she died PIH Or maybe DIC or both ! L& D Lango. Women do die before during or after child birth Same with fetus! GOD gives life GOD takes life Sovereign GOD But yes all good points Thank You
I believe Rachel died because of the words spoken by Jacob to Laban because we've already seen through the Patriarchs' blessings that their words carry weight with YHWH, even if the person is unaware of the situation (Isaac giving Jacob the blessing after being tricked). Also, Jacob we have to remember, was a prophet; we see this in his last words to his sons, where he even prophesies about the coming Messiah.
That’s so sad because Rachel didn’t do anything wrong. Jacob gets to sleep with two wives and concubines. All Rachel did was love Jacob to the extreme. Jacob was set up by Rachel’s father by giving him the older daughter. I mean there is sad and good that came out of this. Rachel suffered a lot.
I don't think that Rachael was cursed. It was not unusual for women to die in childbirth in ancient times. Perhaps it was a breech birth. There was little medical knowledge back them.
this is weird... but one of my ancestors was named Benoni... he was named so after his father drowned.... his father's side of the family decided to spread lies, saying that he was born out of wedlock even though his parents were married.... it was just a marriage the dutch church did not recognize at the time.....
I’m not sure she was a sinner like the rest of us I hope she repented and has been forgiven and in heaven Lot of women died bearing children years ago but she had some great children so I thank God for that and praise him for Jesus or we all be heading to hell brothers and sisters he paid a debt we could never have paid so praise you and thank you Lord Jesus Amen
Poor women, she suffered a lot. Meaniness and family jealousies especially from her own sister may have had something to do with her death. I feel for any women that is looked down at, simply for the fact that they can not bare a child. I have a son and I feel blessed, just like Rachel I gave birth later in life for personal reasons, but I was often asked when are you going to have a second kid. Families and societies expect so much from women and then blame them if they don't meet their expectations, not realizing they are contributing to their misery. Regarding Rachel's death, I don't think it is the curse of the words spoken in despair, I don't think it is God's punishment either, God is GOOD. He gave her two beautiful boys. If God would curse and punish people for every word spoken in haste, we will all be dead. This all happened because Jacob married Leah, which in my honest opinion he chose to do. I believe he knew very well what he was doing. I do not believe for a second that he discovered he married Leah afterwards, this sounds childish and ridiculous. It is crazy how those who told these stories written in the Bible often justify men and put the blame on women. I think it is the very people around Rachel, including Jacob that contributed to her death. Jacob, who did not do enough to shield Rachel from Leah's and her kids meaniness, protect her through their marriage and take care of her in the crucial moment of childbirth. It is no coincidence and it is the same meaniness which many years later resulted on Joseph being sold by their own brothers and all the suffering that he went through. And Jacob once more wasn't there to protect them, neither Rachel, neither Joseph. Jacob suffered his own mistakes later in his life in older age. But God still forgave them all and used Rachel's and Joseph's misfortune for everybody's good. So please stop blaming the Lord for the things we do wrong ourselves as humans.
Rachel had Jacob's favoritism and a Maid to help care for her. Lea, the neglected wife with a passel of kids, I doubt, created much real discomfort other than jealousy. It was Rachel who was jealous. I don't like her at all. The whys of Leas' fertility are in the Bible itself. It was her one comfort; Rachel seemed to get everything else.
