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 treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.
1 Kings 19:4
Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. It is just too much, Jehovah, he prayed. Take away my life. I could just as well be dead.
Job 3:20
Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in heart?
Job 7:16
I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.
Job 14:13
If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me!
Jonah 4:3
Now, O Jehovah, 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 he married 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 despised the local Canaanite women.
Genesis 34:1
One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the Canaanite women.
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Genesis 24:3
I want you to swear by Jehovah God of heaven and earth that you will not get my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.
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Genesis 34:9
Let us make an agreement that there will be intermarriage between our people and yours.