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
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Song of Songs 8:6
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals of it are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Isaiah 62:4
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

Honourable

Genesis 41:20
And the lean and the ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows:
Numbers 22:15
And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
1 Samuel 22:14
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honorable in thy house?
2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance to Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.
1 Chronicles 4:9
And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
Isaiah 3:3
The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the skillful artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isaiah 23:8
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
Acts 13:50
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their borders.
Acts 17:12
Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women who were Greeks, and of men not a few.