Marriage

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• 1 Kings 3:1 OT

  Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

• Exodus 2:1 OT

  A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.

• 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.

• 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…

• Romans 7:2 NT

  For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

• Romans 7:3 NT

  So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

• Genesis 4:19 OT

  Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

• Genesis 20:12 OT

  Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

• Genesis 24:24 OT

  She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”

• Genesis 28:2 OT

  Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

• Genesis 24:49-51 OT

  Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.” Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.…

• Genesis 34:6 OT

  Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

• Genesis 34:8 OT

  Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

• Genesis 28:8 OT

  Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.

• Judges 14:2 OT

  He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”

• Judges 14:3 OT

  Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she…

• Genesis 24:57 OT

  They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.”

• Genesis 24:58 OT

  They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”

• 1 Samuel 18:20 OT

  Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

• 1 Samuel 25:41 OT

  She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

• Exodus 22:17 OT

  If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

• Leviticus 18:6 OT

  “ ‘None of you shall approach any close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.

• 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.

• Joshua 23:12 OT

  “But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;