Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

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Bible References

Served

Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you.”
Hosea 12:12
Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram,
And Israel worked for a wife,
And for a wife he kept sheep.

For the love

Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Song of Songs 8:6
“Put me like a seal over your heart,
Like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
The very flame of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
Ephesians 5:2
and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

General references

Genesis 44:27
Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;