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 thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'
1 Kings 19:4
and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'
Job 3:20
Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 7:16
I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.
Job 14:13
O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.
Jonah 4:3
And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

Because

Genesis 26:34
And Esau is a son of forty years, and he taketh a wife, Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite,
Genesis 28:8
and Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,
Genesis 34:1
And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land,

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Genesis 24:3
and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

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Genesis 34:9
and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,