Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
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Bible References
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Numbers 11:15
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and do not let me see my wretchedness."
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
Job 3:20
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:16
I loathe my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 14:13
"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
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Genesis 26:34
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 28:8
Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac, his father.
Genesis 34:1
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
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Genesis 24:3
I will make you swear by the LORD, 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.
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Genesis 34:9
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.