Marriage

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Judges 14:12 OT

  Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

• Genesis 24:60 OT

  They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

• Ruth 4:12 OT

  Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”

• Genesis 24:53 OT

  The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

• Genesis 24:59 OT

  They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.

• Genesis 29:24 OT

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:29 OT

  Laban gave Bilhah, his servant, to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.

• Isaiah 49:18 OT

  Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

• Isaiah 61:10 OT

  I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns…

• Psalms 45:13 OT

  The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

• Psalms 45:14 OT

  She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

• Psalms 45:9 OT

  Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

• Psalms 45:10 OT

  Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

• Judges 14:11 OT

  When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

• Psalms 45:12 OT

  The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

• Song of Solomon 3:11 OT

  Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.

• Isaiah 62:5 OT

  For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

• Matthew 25:1-6 NT

  “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, but…

• Matthew 22:12 NT

  and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

• Deuteronomy 22:23 OT

  If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,

• Deuteronomy 22:24 OT

  then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove…

• Matthew 1:19 NT

  Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

• Isaiah 54:5 OT

  For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

• Jeremiah 3:14 OT

  “Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.