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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I am
Numbers 11:15
If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
1 Kings 19:4
While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Job 3:20
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Job 7:16
I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
Job 14:13
If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
Jonah 4:3
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
Because
Genesis 26:34
And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Genesis 28:8
It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,
Genesis 34:1
Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.
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Genesis 24:3
And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
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Genesis 34:9
And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.