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
And if thou must deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found grace in thy sight; and let me 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 juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 3:20
Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Job 7:16
I loathed life; I do not desire to live for ever; let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 14:13
O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for I would rather die than live.

Because

Genesis 26:34
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon, the Hittite:
Genesis 28:8
and Esau, seeing that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father,
Genesis 34:1
And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she gave birth unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

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Genesis 24:3
and I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;

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