Family
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Family’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
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It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
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A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
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restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.
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“For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up:
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for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress.
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Genesis 16:5 OT
Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
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Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
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The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.
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Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.” Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. Rebekah…
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He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years. Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him…
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When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.” Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the…
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Exodus 4:25 OT
Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
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Exodus 4:26 OT
So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
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When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions; but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb. Her rival provoked her…
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As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.
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Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain…
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On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, to bring Vashti the…
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Genesis 12:7 OT
Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
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Genesis 12:8 OT
He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
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Genesis 13:3 OT
He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
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Genesis 13:4 OT
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.