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
Then Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan [were] evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,
That his name
Deuteronomy 9:14
Leave me alone, and let me destroy them, and let me blot out their name from under heaven, and let me make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they!'
Deuteronomy 29:20
Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for [by then] the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.
Ruth 4:10
And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired as a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his relatives and from the gate of his [birth] place. You [are] witnesses today."
Psalm 9:5
You have rebuked [the] nations; you have destroyed [the] wicked. Their name you have blotted out forever and ever.
Psalm 109:13
Let his descendants be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in [the] next generation.
General references
Genesis 38:8
Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to the wife of your brother and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."
Matthew 14:4
because John had been saying to him, "It is not permitted for you to have her."
Luke 20:28
saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us if someone's brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants for his brother.