Marriage

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Ezra 9:11 OT

  which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end…

• 1 Kings 11:1 OT

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• Nehemiah 13:23 OT

  In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

• 1 Kings 11:3 OT

  He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.

• Genesis 24:2 OT

  Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

• Genesis 24:3 OT

  I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

• Genesis 28:1 OT

  Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

• Deuteronomy 20:7 OT

  What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

• Judges 14:5 OT

  Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.

• Judges 14:7 OT

  He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

• Judges 14:8 OT

  After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

• 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.

• Proverbs 2:17 OT

  who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;

• Joel 1:8 OT

  Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

• Numbers 36:6-13 OT

  This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father. So shall no inheritance of the…

• Luke 1:5 NT

  There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

• 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.

• Deuteronomy 25:5 OT

  If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s…

• Matthew 22:24 NT

  saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

• 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.”

• 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.

• Jeremiah 7:34 OT

  Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”

• 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.

• Jeremiah 25:10 OT

  Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.