Genesis 35:17
During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”
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- Genesis 30:24 She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
- 1 Samuel 4:19–21 Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her. As she was dying, the women attending to her said, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay any heed. And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.