Bilhah

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. Rachael's servant

Bears children by Jacob

• Genesis 29:29 Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
• Genesis 30:3–4 Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.” So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
• Genesis 37:2 This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Mother of Dan and Naphtali

• Genesis 30:1–8 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob. Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?” Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep…
• Genesis 35:25 The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
• Genesis 46:23–25 The son of Dan: Hushim. The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel — seven in all.

Reuben's incest with

• Genesis 35:22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
• Genesis 49:4 Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

2. A place in the land of Simeon

• 1 Chronicles 4:29 Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,

Called BALAH

• Joshua 19:3 Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,

And BAALAH

• Joshua 15:29 Baalah, Iim, Ezem,