35 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” So she named him Judah.[e] Then she stopped having children.
Last time I noted that Jesus cam through the lineage of Leah and you noted that God always seems to use the lower status people to drive his plan. Good take by you, I had not gotten anything out of it then or again this time.
After a couple re-reads my take here is that Leah was focused on being loved by a man and getting his attention. After having 3 boys she was like now he'll love me since I gave him 3 boys. Nope, onto the 4th.
After having the 4th she turns her attention to praising God, end of the stream of birthing boys. She didn't need what a man could provide any longer, she had God and was fulfilled. not sure that is the take, it certainly doesn't say that directly but that's what came to my head.
praying for you to know God IS with you and he will get you through this extremely stressful time of life. The stress is real I wouldn't ever say its not but so is his ability to protect you.
knut
I don't really have a strong take out of here either. One funnny note is that even though Jacob isn't really attracted to Leah, and she has "weak eyes"....she seems to get pregnant a lot. He must be willing to have sex with her....just sayin. I also think its funny that Leah is described as "having weak eyes." But Rachel is described as, "had a lovely figure and was beautiful." Is the weak eyes thing kinda like saying she had a good personality?
ReplyDeleteIn all of these Genesis stories, there is SO much about having children vs being barren. It seems to be a real blessing from God to conceive a child. It almost seems like God is controlling that aspect closer than he does today.
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