Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

General references

Bible References

Served

Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram.
Israel worked to earn a wife;
he tended flocks for a wife.

For the love

Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death.
Song of Songs 8:6
Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death;
ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames
the fiercest of all.
1 Corinthians 13:7
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For Christ’s love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If One died for all, then all died.
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

General references

Genesis 44:27
Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

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