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?
Because
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Bible References
I am
Numbers 11:15
If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."
1 Kings 19:4
Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."
Job 3:20
"Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,
Job 7:16
I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.
Job 14:13
"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.
Jonah 4:3
And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"
Because
Genesis 26:34
And [when] Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 28:8
Then Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan [were] evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,
Genesis 34:1
Now 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
that I may make you swear by Yahweh, 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 in whose midst I am dwelling,
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Genesis 34:9
Make marriages with us. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.