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

I am

Numbers 11:15
And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.
1 Kings 19:4
And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
Job 7:16
I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.
Job 14:13
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, --
Jonah 4:3
And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

Because

Genesis 26:34
And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 28:8
And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the sight of Isaac his father.
Genesis 34:1
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

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Genesis 24:3
and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling;

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Genesis 34:9
And make marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to you.