Favoritism
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Favoritism’. 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.
Showing 1–9 of 9 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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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.
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She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.
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1 Samuel 1:4 OT
When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;
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1 Samuel 1:5 OT
but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
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Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’ Now therefore, my son, obey…
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Genesis 37:3 OT
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
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Genesis 37:4 OT
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
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He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.
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If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated, then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit…