Genesis 27:46

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?

I am

Because

Genesis 26:34

Genesis 28:8

Genesis 34:1

If jacob

Genesis 24:3

General references

Genesis 34:9

Bible References

I am

So if this is the way You are going to deal with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

“I waste away and loathe my life; I will not live forever.
Let me alone, for my days are but a breath [futile and without substance].

“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!

Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Because

When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite as his wives;

So Esau realized that [his two wives] the daughters of Canaan displeased Isaac his father;

Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out [unescorted] to visit the girls of the land.

If jacob

and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

General references

And [beyond that] intermarry with us; give your daughters to us [as wives] and take our daughters for yourselves.