Section Seven

Birth and Earlier - Other

References

1. Isaac’s wife Rebekah is pregnant with their two sons Esau and Jacob. God says to Rebekah that the reason the two are jostling with each other inside her is that the two children will in future form two different nations. 2. As part of an argument by Job that he had not withheld justice from his servants, he claims that God had made both him and his servants ‘in the womb’. 3. In a prophecy about Jacob, God says that he made Jacob and formed him in the womb. There is also a blessing for Jacob’s offspring and descendants (verse 3). 4. God is reminding people that there is no other god like him (especially the Babylonian gods). God reminds the ‘descendants of Jacob’ and the ‘people of Israel’ that he has upheld them since their birth and has carried them since they were born. 5. In a passage about the ‘servant’ of the LORD, the servant says: a. Before he was born the LORD called him. Also, that from his ‘mother’s womb’ the LORD has spoken the servant’s name (verse 1) b. That the LORD formed him in the womb in order ‘to be his servant’ (verse 5)