From Nave’s Topical Bible
Bilhah
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 12Passages listed
- 3Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- 1. Rachael's servant
- Bears children by JacobGenesis 29:29Genesis 30:3Genesis 30:4Genesis 37:2
- Mother of Dan and NaphtaliGenesis 30:1–8Genesis 35:25Genesis 46:23–25
- Reuben's incest withGenesis 35:22Genesis 49:4
- 2. A place in the land of Simeon1 Chronicles 4:29
- Called BALAHJoshua 19:3
- And BAALAHJoshua 15:29
The passages, in Bible order (12)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 12 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 29:29
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
Commentary on Genesis 29:291 voice
And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. As he had given Leah an handmaid he gave Rachel another; and this in the Targum of Jonathan is said to be a daughter of Laban by a concubine also, as the former.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 30:1–8
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
Commentary on Genesis 30:1–82 voices
Leah bore Reu-ben, Simeon, Levi and Judah and then ceased giving birth, whereas Rachel was barren. Because she heard Jacob say that Abraham had prayed over the barren Sarah and was heard and that Isaac had also prayed for Rebekah and was answered, she thought …
Ephrem the Syrian· COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 28.1.1, 373Patristic
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 30:3
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
- Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
Commentary on Genesis 30:41 voice
So, lest she nag him, asking him every day for children, Jacob, who was sent from his parents to take a daughter of Laban, agreed to take the foreign woman. But it was also so that the sons of the maidservants might become joint heirs …
Ephrem the Syrian· COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 28.1.2, 373Patristic
- Genesis 35:22
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Commentary on Genesis 35:221 voice
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land,.... In that part of it near Bethlehem: that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; his concubine wife; she was the maid that Rachel gave him, and this added to his affliction, and made it double, to lose Rachel by death, and to have her favourite maid, his concubine, defiled by his own son, and whom it is highly probable he abstained from hereafter.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 35:25
The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
- Genesis 37:2
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
Commentary on Genesis 37:21 voice
Sin against nature is the most wicked and is to be fled above all others. And concerning this crime, "Joseph accused his brothers before their father of a most grievous crime."
Bonaventure· Collationes de decem praeceptis, Collation 6 (Paris, Lent 1267)Patristic
- Genesis 46:23–25
The son of Dan: Hushim.
Commentary on Genesis 46:23–251 voice
And the sons of Dan, Hushim. He had but one son, wherefore the plural is put for the singular, see Gen 46:7; Aben Ezra thinks he had two sons, and that one of them was dead, and therefore not mentioned; but the other way best accounts for the expression; though, as Schmidt observes, the plural may be indefinitely put, and the sense be this, as for the sons of Dan, there was only one, whose name was Hushim. Dan was a son of Jacob by Bilhah, Rachel's maid, as the following was another.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 49:4
Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
Commentary on Genesis 49:41 voice
Doesn't this seem to be a reproach rather than a blessing? Thus it really is more a prophecy than a blessing. For a prophecy is an announcement of events to come, whereas a blessing is the longed for bestowal of sanctification and of graces.The Jews suppose that the old man is saying these things to his son Reuben on this account, because the latter lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and polluted his father's bed. But they are easily refuted; this had already taken place.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Blessings of the Patriarchs, 397Patristic
- Joshua 15:29
Baalah, Iim, Ezem,
Commentary on Joshua 15:291 voice
Baalah,.... Baalah was given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:3; for Baalah is the same with Balah there, as it is with Bilba, 1Ch 4:29; though according to the Jerusalem Talmud (i) it is the same with Baalah, given to the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:44; and was one of those places whose houses were in Judah and their fields in Dan: and Azem was also given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:3; it is the same with Ezem, 1Ch 4:29, and Iim, of which we read nowhere else. (i) Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 18. 3.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Joshua 19:3
Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,
Commentary on Joshua 19:31 voice
And Hazarshual,.... See Gill on Jos 15:28, and Balah, and Azem; of these places see Gill on Jos 15:29; for Balah is the same with Baalah there, and with Bilhah 1Ch 4:29; and Azem with Ezem there.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed