The Competition

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.  Genesis 29:30  ESV More than– Why does Jacob love Rachel more than Leah?  Leah is devoted to Jacob.  Leah gives Jacob many sons so obviously he didn’t maintain sexual distance from her.  Leah pleads for his…

Correct but Insufficient

The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Genesis 2:22  NASB Brought– When I wrote Guardian Angel, I thought the title would be The Perfect Enemy.  My thinking was this: God brings into the lives of husbands precisely those wives who act as polishing stones, grinding away…

Illegitimate

Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons; Genesis 44:27  NASB My wife– Sometimes we just read over critical details in the text because we know the stories so well.  As a result, we don’t experience the emotional impact in the text.  We end up with the Sunday school version—theologically…