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
And if You are going to part this way with me, I beg You to kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and let me not see my misery.
1 Kings 19:4
And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.
Job 3:20
Why is light given to one who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:16
I despise them; I will not live always; let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Job 14:13
Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?
Jonah 4:3
And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.
Because
Genesis 26:34
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
Genesis 28:8
and when Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father;
Genesis 34:1
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
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Genesis 24:3
And I will make you swear by Jehovah, the God of Heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
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Genesis 34:9
And you make marriages with us, giving your daughters to us, and taking our daughters to you.