Genesis 20:17-18:
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
Notes on Genesis 20:17-18:
The context here is that Abimelech’s household was cursed because Sarah was there. She belonged with her husband Abraham. Out of fear for his life, Abraham had passed Sarah off as his sister. Abimelech took Sarah into his house without knowing that she was Abraham’s wife.
Here we see that God definitely considers barrenness (having no children) to be a curse because of sin. Those who are righteous in Christ Jesus are saved from sin and any curse that would result from it. Therefore, Christians are redeemed from infertility.
Sarah’s life had to be “renewed like the eagle’s” (Psalm 103:5), as there is no other explanation for how an old infertile woman suddenly became so “hot” that Abimelech wanted her for himself!
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