Yahweh's Teachings On Barrenness
By Isaac Aluochier
All scripture quotations are from the World English Bible published at http://www.ebible.org/Bible/WEB/.
CONTENTS
Humans Are To Be Fruitful, Multiply, Fill The Earth And Subdue It (Genesis 1:26-28)
Breeding Facilitates Being Fruitful And Multiplying On The Earth (Genesis 8:15-17)
Yahweh Reiterated To Noah The Task Given Adam (Genesis 9:1-7)
Sarai Was Barren (Genesis 11:27-32)
Yahweh Promised To Give Abram Children (Genesis 15)
Abram Understood That Children Are Yahweh's Gifts
Ask Yahweh To Provide You With Children
It Is Righteousness To Believe Yahweh's Word
Yahweh Restrained Sarai From Bearing Children (Genesis 16:1-2)
Humans Should Not Interfere With Their Fruitfulness
Yahweh Sometimes Rewards An Afflicted Person With Children (Genesis 16:7-12)
Yahweh Sometimes Gives Children To Those Seemingly Incapable Of Bearing Children (Genesis 17:15-21)
It Is A Pleasure For A Woman To Bear A Child (Genesis 18:1-15)
Nothing Is Too Hard For Yahweh
Abimelech Unwittingly Took Another Man's Wife (Genesis 20)
Yahweh Punished Abimelech And His Household For Taking Another Man's Wife
Guilt Is Borne Even For Unwitting Sin
Adultery Is Sin Against Yahweh
Yahweh Prevented Abimelech From Fully Sinning Against Yahweh
Two Sins Involved In Abimelech Taking Another Man's Wife As His
Repent Of Your Sin Once You Become Aware Of It
Yahweh's Servants Should Pray For Repentant Sinners
Make Appropriate Disclosure To Prevent Unwitting Sin
Yahweh Punished Abimelech And His Household With Barrenness
Barrenness Is A Curse For Sexual Sin
Yahweh Reproved Abimelech For Adultery, Not For Polygyny
Do Not Condemn What Yahweh Has Not Condemned?
Did Not Yahweh Concur With Abimelech That Polygyny Is Part Of Righteousness?
Follow Yahweh's Example Concerning Polygyny
Ascertain That A Woman Is Free For Marriage Before Taking Her As Your Wife
Sarah Was In Laughter After She Gave Birth To Her Son (Genesis 21:1-7)
Entreat Yahweh For Children Where Barrenness Exists (Genesis 25:19-26)
The Fruitfulness Of Jacob's Wives (Genesis 29:31-35)
Both Leah And Rachel Were Barren
Did Not Yahweh Make Leah Fruitful In Compensation For Her Mistreatment?
Leah Thought That Her Husband's Love Towards Her Was Conditional
Was Jacob's Love For His Wives Conditional?
Yahweh Again Closed Leah's Womb
Rely On Yahweh To Determine When You Are Fruitful
Yahweh Sometimes Withholds The Fruit Of The Womb (Genesis 30:1-2)
It Is A Reproach For A Woman To Be Childless (Genesis 30:22-24)
Sex Between A Man And His Wife (Genesis 38:1-11)
It Is The Duty Of A Brother To Raise Up Seed For His Brother Who Dies Childless
Onan's Evil Action In Yahweh's Sight
Would Yahweh Have Punished Onan With Death For Refusing To Take His Brother's Widow As Wife?
It Is Wrong For A Man To Have Sex With His Wife And Prevent Her Conception
The Evil Of Human Beings Having Sex And Preventing Conception Is Widespread
Yahweh's Followers Should Cease From The Evil Of Having Sex And Preventing Conception
Yahweh Blesses His Servants With Good Health And The Removal Of Miscarriages And Barrenness (Exodus 23:20-33)
Yahweh Makes Fruitful Those Who Keep His Commandments And Do Them (Leviticus 26:1-13)
The Law Of Jealousy (Numbers 5:11-31)
An Unfaithful Wife Is Defiled
The Spirit Of Jealousy Is Not A Reliable Indicator Of A Wife's Defilement
A Wife Is Under Her Husband's Authority
Yahweh Has Capacity To Curse A Woman
Barrenness Is A Curse From Yahweh
Fear Yahweh
Curses Befall The Children Of Those Who Rebel Against Yahweh (Deuteronomy 4:25-31)
Yahweh Removes Curses From Those Who Faithfully Serve Him
Parents Should Keep Yahweh's Word That He May Bless Both Them And Their Children (Deuteronomy 4:39-40)
It Is Well With Parents And Children When They Fear Yahweh And Do All His Commandments (Deuteronomy 5:23-33)
Yahweh Blesses His Faithful People With Fruitfulness Of Body (Deuteronomy 7:12-15)
Duty Of A Man To His Dead Childless Brother (Deuteronomy 25:5-10)
Yahweh Does Not Force A Man To Marry His Childless Brother's Widow
Penalty Upon A Man Who Does Not Perform His Duty To His Dead Childless Brother
It Is Evil To Have Sex But Impede Conception
Fruitfulness Of Body A Blessing For Faithfully Serving Yahweh (Deuteronomy 28:1-4, 11)
Curses Befall The Children Of Those Who Disobey Yahweh (Deuteronomy 28:15-44)
Yahweh Turns Curses To Blessings Upon Those Who Repent And Faithfully Serve Him (Deuteronomy 30:1-5)
Children Are Yahweh's Blessing (Deuteronomy 33:24)
Samson's Miraculous Birth (Judges 13)
Samson Was Dedicated To Yahweh Before His Conception
Manoah And His Wife Were Faithful Servants of Yahweh
Yahweh Fulfilled His Word To Manoah And His Wife
Samuel's Miraculous Birth (1 Samuel 1:1-2:11)
Why Hannah Was Barren
Elkanah Loved Hannah Despite Her Barrenness
Hannah Wanted More Than Elkanah's Love
The Nature Of Hannah's Prayer To Yahweh
Hannah Wasn't A Wicked Woman
Be Content Once You Have Prayed To Yahweh
Yahweh Accepted Hannah's Proposal
Hannah Was An Honourable Woman
Praise And Worship Yahweh
Yahweh Delivers The Barren Out Of Their Affliction
Yahweh Graciously Gave Hannah More Children (1 Samuel 2:18-21)
Childlessness Is A Punishment For Sin (1 Samuel 15:32-33)
Michal Died Childless For Despising Her Husband (2 Samuel 6:14-23)
Shunammite Woman Blessed With A Son On Account Of Her Kindness (2 Kings 4:12-17)
The Barren Of The Wicked Are Not Delivered (Job 24:13-21)
A Psalm For Barren Women Blessed With Children (Psalm 113)
Prophesied Fruitfulness Of Yahweh's Barren Wife (Isaiah 54)
John's Miraculous Birth (Luke 1:5-25)
Even The Righteous Before Yahweh Can Be Childless
Why Some Righteous Servants Of Yahweh Are Barren
Believe Yahweh Words Even When Their Fulfilment Appears Unlikely
Did Zacharias Request A Son?
Elizabeth's Barrenness Was For Yahweh's Glorification
It Is A Reproach For A Woman To Be Barren
Yahweh Facilitated Elizabeth's Conception, Bearing And Giving Birth
Believe All Of Yahweh's Words
The Hearts Of Fathers Should Be Turned To Their Children
Prophecy Concerning Yah'shuah's Birth (Luke 1:26-38)
Yahweh Facilitates Conception By The Holy Spirit
Yahweh Magnified His Mercy Towards Elizabeth (Luke 1:57-66)
How Yahweh Magnified His Mercy Towards Elizabeth
Was Sin Involved In Elizabeth's Barrenness?
Cry To Yahweh For The Removal Of Your Reproach
A Man Born Blind (John 9:1-7)
Why Some People Apparently Suffer From Curses
Conclusion
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