When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down;
Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.”
And of all my sons, for the Lord has given me many, he has chosen my son Solomon to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Here am I and the children whom God has given me.”
So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. When they came together, the Lord made her conceive, and she bore a son.
For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me the petition that I made to him.