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
If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
Job 3:20
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:16
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
Job 14:13
Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."

Because

Genesis 26:34
When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,
Genesis 28:8
So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,
Genesis 34:1
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land.

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Genesis 24:3
that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,

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Genesis 34:9
Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

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