Genesis 16:2

So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Cross References (14)

  • Genesis 18:10 (3)

    Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah

  • Genesis 3:17 (3)

    And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I comman

  • Exodus 21:4 (3)

    If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her maste

  • Genesis 3:1–6 (2)

    Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did G

  • Genesis 3:12 (2)

    And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

  • Genesis 20:18 (2)

    for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.

  • Genesis 30:2–4 (2)

    Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”

  • Psalms 127:3 (2)

    Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

  • Genesis 17:16 (2)

    And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kin

  • Genesis 30:9–10 (2)

    When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

  • Genesis 30:22 (2)

    Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

  • Genesis 25:21 (2)

    Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wi

  • Ruth 4:11 (1)

    “We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like

  • Genesis 30:6 (1)

    Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.