“Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.”
Genesis 25:21
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Why did Isaac pray for Rebekah?
This promise meant every promise to Abraham ran through Isaac's children. Years later Isaac's wife Rebekah was barren, which put this sentence in question year after year, so Isaac prayed to the LORD for her (Genesis 25:21).
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Prayed and heard here are both athar (H6279), to plead: Isaac pleaded, and the LORD let Himself be pleaded with. In the next verse Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD, the first place the Bible uses that phrase for a person seeking the LORD.
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Isaac's son Jacob later faced the same grief when his wife Rachel had no children. Jacob knew that God alone gives life, yet when Rachel cried out to him, he did not take her grief to the LORD as his father had (Genesis 30:1-2).
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