Marriage

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 1 Samuel 18:27 OT

  David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his…

• Esther 2:2-4 OT

  Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king. Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the…

• Esther 2:8-14 OT

  So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.…

• 2 Samuel 3:14 OT

  David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

• Exodus 34:16 OT

  and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

• Deuteronomy 7:3 OT

  You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

• Deuteronomy 7:4 OT

  For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

• 1 Chronicles 23:22 OT

  Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives.

• Ezra 9:1 OT

  Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the…

• Ezra 9:2 OT

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

• Ezra 9:12 OT

  Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your…

• Nehemiah 10:30 OT

  and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

• Nehemiah 13:26 OT

  Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

• Nehemiah 13:27 OT

  Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”

• Malachi 2:11 OT

  Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

• 1 Corinthians 7:39 NT

  A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

• 2 Corinthians 6:14 NT

  Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

• Matthew 1:18 NT

  Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

• Luke 1:27 NT

  to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.

• Ezekiel 16:8 OT

  “ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and…

• Judges 11:38 OT

  He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

• Isaiah 4:1 OT

  Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

• Jeremiah 16:9 OT

  For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

• 1 Corinthians 7:7 NT

  Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.