Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
The first-born
That his name
General references
Bible References
The first-born
Genesis 28:8
Esau realized that Canaan women didn't please his father Isaac,
That his name
Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone! I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I'll make you into a nation that will be mighty and more numerous than they are.'
Deuteronomy 29:20
"The LORD won't forgive such a person. Instead, the zealous anger of the LORD will blaze against him. All the curses that were written in this book will fall on him. Then the LORD will wipe out his memory from under heaven.
Ruth 4:10
along with Mahlon's wife Ruth the Moabite woman. I will marry her to continue the family name as an inheritance, so that the name of the deceased does not disappear from among his relatives, nor from the public record. You are all witnesses today!"
Psalm 9:5
You rebuked the nations, you destroyed the wicked, you wiped out their name forever and ever.
Psalm 109:13
May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation.
General references
Genesis 38:8
So Judah instructed Onan, "You are to have sexual relations with your dead brother's wife, performing the duty of a brother-in-law with her, and have offspring for your brother."
Matthew 14:4
John had been telling him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."
Luke 20:28
and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and have children for his brother.