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Lukas 1:7

Tetapi mereka tidak mempunyai anak, sebab Elisabet mandul dan keduanya telah lanjut umurnya.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barrenness;   Elisabeth (Elizabeth);   Joy;   Temple;   Zacharias (Zechariah);   Thompson Chain Reference - Childlessness;   Family;   Home;   Trouble;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Years;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Elisabeth;   John;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elizabeth;   John the baptist;   Marriage;   Remnant;   Zechariah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jerusalem;   John the Baptist;   Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Angel;   Union Hypostatical;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Barren;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Juttah;   Luke, the Gospel According to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Barren, Barrenness;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   John;   Luke, Gospel of;   Mother;   Resurrection of Jesus Christ;   Zacharias;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John the Baptist;   Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Deaf and Dumb;   Elisabeth;   Lots ;   Priest (2);   Zacharias ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elisabeth ;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - parable of the pharisee and the publican;   pharisee and publican;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Theophilus;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisabeth;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - John the Baptist;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - John, the Baptize;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Barren;   Child;   Priesthood in the New Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - John the Baptist;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi mereka tidak mempunyai anak, sebab Elisabet mandul dan keduanya telah lanjut umurnya.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi mereka itu tiada beranak, karena Elisabet itu mandul, dan keduanya pun sudah sangat lanjut umurnya.

Contextual Overview

5 There was in the dayes of Herode the kyng of Iurie, a certaine priest, named Zacharias, of the course of Abia, & his wyfe was of the daughters of Aaron, & her name was Elizabeth. 6 They were both ryghteous before God, and walked in all the lawes and ordinaunces of the Lorde, that no man coulde fynde fault with them. 7 And they had no chylde, because that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were nowe well stricken in age. 8 And it came to passe, that when Zacharie executed the priestes office before God, as his course came, 9 Accordyng to ye custome of the priestes office, his lot was to burne incence, whe he went into the temple of the Lorde. 10 And the whole multitude of the people were without in prayer, whyle the incence was burnyng. 11 And there appeared vnto hym an Angel of the Lorde, standyng on the ryght syde of the aulter of incence. 12 And when Zacharias sawe him, he was troubled, and feare came vpo him. 13 But the Angel sayde vnto him: Feare not Zacharie, for thy prayer is hearde: and thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare thee a sonne, & thou shalt cal his name Iohn. 14 And thou shalt haue ioy and gladnesse, and many shall reioyce at his birth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they had: Genesis 15:2, Genesis 15:3, Genesis 16:1, Genesis 16:2, Genesis 25:21, Genesis 30:1, Judges 13:2, Judges 13:3, 1 Samuel 1:2, 1 Samuel 1:5-8

well: Genesis 17:17, Genesis 18:11, 1 Kings 1:1, 2 Kings 4:14, Romans 4:19, Hebrews 11:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 11:30 - barren Genesis 24:1 - was old Genesis 29:31 - he opened Leviticus 20:20 - childless Joshua 13:1 - Joshua Luke 1:18 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.
Genesis 1:9
And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth [both] budde and hearbe apt to seede, and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde, which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:15
And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they maye geue light vpo the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth lyuyng creature after his kynde, cattell, worme, and beastes of the earth after his kynde: and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.
Genesis 1:29
And God sayde: beholde, I haue geuen you euery hearbe bearing seede, which is in the vpper face of all ye earth, and euery tree in the which is the fruite of a tree bearing seede, [that] they may be meate vnto you:
Job 26:8
He byndeth the water in his cloudes, & the cloude is not broken vnder them.
Psalms 104:10
Who also causeth the springes which runne betweene the hilles: to flowe into the riuers.
Psalms 148:4
Prayse ye hym all ye heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they had no child,.... Son or daughter: and which was accounted a great infelicity: but this was not owing to the judgment of God upon them for any sins they had been guilty of, as the above character of them shows: and it had been the case of some righteous pairs before them for a great while, as Abraham and Sarah, Manoah, and his wile, Elkanah and Hannah:

because that Elizabeth was barren; so that it was peculiarly her case, and not Zacharias's: and though God had promised the people of Israel that there should be no male nor female barren among them, Deuteronomy 7:14 yet there were instances and exceptions to this general rule, as before mentioned, when it was the pleasure of God to make himself known, and magnify his power in the extraordinary conception and birth of any person; and therefore, though barrenness was reckoned a reproach to a person, there was, in this case, a particular hand of God, to answer a special purpose: the signs of sterility are, according to the Jews b, when a woman had not breasts as other women have, her voice gross, so that it could not be discerned, whether it was a man's or a woman's, c.

and they both were now well stricken in years which made the conception and birth of John the more extraordinary, and even

miraculous, and so the belief of it the more difficult; see Genesis 17:17 It may be literally rendered, "they had proceeded", or had far advanced "in their days": it is an "Hebraism", and answers to, באים בימים in

Genesis 18:11 where the Septuagint render it by the same phrase as here. The Mahometan writers Beidavi and Jallallo'din say c that Zacharias was "ninety nine" years of age, and his wife "eighty nine".

b T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 80. 2. Maimon. & Bartenora. in Misn. Yebamot, c. 1. sect. 1. & Maimon. Hilch. Ishot, c. 2. sect. 6. c In Koran, c. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Well stricken in years - Old or advanced in life, so as to render the prospect of having children hopeless.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 1:7. Both were now well stricken in years. — By the order of God, sterility and old age both met in the person of Elisabeth, to render the birth of a son (humanly speaking) impossible. This was an exact parallel to the case of Sarah and Abraham, Genesis 11:30; Genesis 17:17. Christ must (by the miraculous power of God) be born of a virgin: whatever was connected with, or referred to, his incarnation must be miraculous and impressive. Isaac was his grand type, and therefore must be born miraculously - contrary to the common course and rule of nature: Abraham was a hundred years of age, Sarah was ninety, Genesis 17:17, and it had CEASED to be with Sarah AFTER THE MANNER OF WOMEN, Genesis 18:11, and therefore, from her age and state, the birth of a child must, according to nature, have been impossible; and it was thus; that it might be miraculous. John the Baptist was to be the forerunner of Christ; his birth, like that of Isaac, must be miraculous, because, like the other, it was to be a representation of the birth of Christ; therefore his parents were both far advanced in years, and besides, Elisabeth was naturally barren. The birth of these three extraordinary persons was announced nearly in the same way. God himself foretells the birth of Isaac, Genesis 17:16. The angel of the Lord announces the birth of John the Baptist, Luke 1:13; and six months after, the angel Gabriel, the same angel, proclaims to Mary the birth of Christ! Man is naturally an inconsiderate and incredulous creature: he must have extraordinary things to arrest and fix his attention; and he requires well-attested miracles from God, to bespeak and confirm his faith. Every person who has properly considered the nature of man must see that the whole of natural religion, so termed, is little else than a disbelief of all religion.


 
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