“But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,”
Genesis 25:22
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- Jacob and Esau: God Spoke Before the Twins Were Born (Genesis 25:19–26)
Isaac pleaded, and the LORD answered
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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When the twins struggled inside her, Rebekah "went to inquire of the LORD." Later, when Isaac was about to hand the blessing to Esau, she asked nobody. She told Jacob to deceive his father, because she did not trust God to bring about what He had said.
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Rebekah went to the LORD herself, and He answered her about her two boys: "the older will serve the younger" (Genesis 25:23). Years later, in Genesis 27, she planned, persuaded and sent Jacob away, and she never once went back to ask Him.
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