The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac
16
Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.
17
And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for v you have another son."
18
And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; w but his father called him Benjamin.
19
So x Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to y Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),
20
and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is z the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.
21
Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
22
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and a lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
23
The sons of Leah: b Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
24
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
25
The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali.
26
The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
27
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at c Mamre, or d Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
28
Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.
29
And Isaac breathed his last, and he died e and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And f his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
-
Cross References
Genesis 30:24
And she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the Lord add to me another son!
-
Cross References
Luke 1:59 - 60
And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father.
-
Cross References
Genesis 48:7
As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
-
Cross References
Ruth 1:2
The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
Ruth 4:11
Then all the people who were at 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, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem.
Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
Matthew 2:6
"'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"
Matthew 2:16 - 18
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.
-
Cross References
1 Samuel 10:2
When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, 'The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
-
Cross References
Genesis 49:4
Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it - he went up to my couch!
1 Chronicles 5:1
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel ( for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son.
2 Samuel 16:22
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 20:3
And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
-
Cross References
Genesis 35:23 - 26
The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 46:8 - 27
Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Exodus 1:2 - 4
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah.
-
Cross References
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
-
Cross References
Genesis 23:2
And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Joshua 14:15
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 15:13
According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
-
Cross References
Genesis 15:15
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
-
Cross References
Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre.
Genesis 49:31
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah -
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.