Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

Bible References

Because

Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.
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.
Isaiah 62:4
It will no longer be said to you, “Forsaken,”
Nor to your land will it any longer be said, “Desolate”;
But you will be called, “My delight is in her,”
And your land, “Married”;
For the Lord delights in you,
And to Him your land will be married.

Honourable

Genesis 41:20
and the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
Numbers 22:15
Then Balak again sent leaders, more numerous and more distinguished than the former.
1 Samuel 22:14
Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, even the king’s son-in-law, who is captain over your guard, and is honored in your house?
2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant warrior, but he was a leper.
1 Chronicles 4:9
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”
Isaiah 3:3
The captain of fifty and the honorable man,
The counselor and the expert artisan,
And the skillful enchanter.
Isaiah 5:13
Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge;
And their honorable men are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.
Isaiah 23:8
Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?
Acts 13:50
But the Jews incited the devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.
Acts 17:12
Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org