And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son.
God hearkened unto Leah, notwithstanding her many infirmities. Hence it appears that she was moved herein not by any inordinate lust, but by a desire of children. cir. 1747
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And God hearkened unto Leah,…. To the prayer of Leah, as the Targum of Jonathan, for more children: the desire of these good women for the company of their husband was not from lust, or an amorous desire in them, but for the sake of having many children, as appears by giving their maids to him; and the reason of this was, as Bishop Patrick well observes, that the promise made to Abraham of the multiplication of his seed, and of the Messiah springing from thence, might be fulfilled; and is the true reason of Moses’s taking such particular notice of those things, which might seem below the dignity of such a sacred history:
and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son; the fifth he had by her, but the ninth in all, that were born unto him.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
17. And God hearkened unto Leah. Moses expressly declares this, in order that we may know how indulgently God dealt with that family. For who would have thought, that, while Leah was hatefully denying to her sister the fruits gathered by her boy, and was purchasing, by the price of those fruits, a night with her husband, there would be any place for prayers? Moses, therefore, teaches us, that pardon was granted for these faults, to prove that the Lord would not fail to complete his work notwithstanding such great infirmity. But Leah ignorantly boasts that her son was given to her as a reward of her sin; for she had violatedthe fidelity of holy wedlock, when she introduced a fresh concubine to oppose her sister. Truly, she is so far from the confession of her fault, that she proclaims her own merit. I grant there was some excuse for her conduct; for she intimates that she was not so much excited by lust, as by modest love, because she desired to increase her family and to fulfill the duty of an honorable mother of a family. But though this pretext is specious in the eyes of men, yet the profanation of holy marriage cannot be pleasing to God. She errs, therefore, in taking what was no cause for the cause. And this is the more to be observed; because it is a fault which too much prevails in the world, for men to reckon the free gifts of God as their own reward; yea, even to boast of their deserts, when they are condemned by the word of God. In her sixth son, she more purely and rightly estimates the divine goodness, when she gives thanks to God, that, by his kindness, her husband would hereafter be more closely united to her, (verse 20). For although he had lived with her before, yet, being too much attached to Rachel, he was almost entirely alienated from Leah. It has before been said, that children born in lawful wedlock are bonds to unite the minds of their parents.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Gen 30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
Ver. 17. God hearkened unto Leah. ] She prayed then, and invited God to her marriage bed. This was praiseworthy in her, howsoever.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
am 2257, bc 1747, Gen 30:6, Gen 30:22, Exo 3:7, 1Sa 1:20, 1Sa 1:26, 1Sa 1:27, Luk 1:13
Reciprocal: Gen 29:35 – left bearing Gen 30:9 – left Gen 46:15 – Leah Num 26:23 – the sons
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 30:17. God hearkened unto Leah And she was now blessed with two sons, the first of whom she called Issachar, hire, reckoning herself well repaid for her mandrakes; nay, (which was a strange construction of the providence,) rewarded for giving her maid to her husband. The other she called Zebulun, dwelling, owning Gods bounty to her, God has endowed me. Jacob had not endowed her when he married her; but she reckons a family of children a good dowry.