Hello and welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge! I’m Lisa Ann. Today’s Bible study will be Part 1 of a 2-Part series on Barrenness . I chose this topic as it pertains to women. ‘Barren’ is a term not applied to men in scripture, although I did find one reference to the words ‘barren’ and ‘male’ in Deuteronomy 7, which we will look at in this study. Men are usually referred to as childless , not barren ; however, we do not find any man mentioned in the Bible that is permanently childless. Abraham called himself ‘childless’ in Genesis 15:2, but he was only childless for a season. God told Jeremiah to write down King Jehoiakim as childless, not because he had no children, but, because none of his sons would ever sit on the throne of David (Jeremiah 22:30; 36:30). The word ‘barren’ is found in 23 verses in the King James Bible, plus one reference to 'barrenness' . Most often it refers to a woman, but it is also used to des...