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v. 24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,
v. 25. Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein He looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
In His season God remembered Elisabeth and her husband. The aged wife had evidence that her prayers at last seemed about to be heard. The result of this knowledge was that she hid herself entirely, she took no part in any social intercourse. God had taken care to remove her reproach from her. Since fruitfulness was one of the promises of God to His people, Gen_17:6, and since children, on this account, were considered as a. particular blessing from heaven, Exo_23:26; Lev_26:9; Psa_127:3, barrenness was among the Jews considered a reproach, a token of the disapprobation of the Lord, 1Sa_1:6. This stigma was now about to be removed. Though the fact was not yet known, even to her intimate friends and relatives, she was aware of it, and she wanted to escape the pitying glances to which she had never become accustomed, until such a time as her hope would be beyond doubt, when no more reproach could strike her.