Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Bible References
Take ye
Jeremiah 16:2
You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.
Genesis 1:27
God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.
Genesis 9:7
You should be fruitful and increase in number. Multiply (increase) on the earth.
1 Timothy 5:14
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
Take wives
Genesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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.
Genesis 28:1
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and told him: Do not marry a Canaanite.
Genesis 29:19
Laban answered: It is better that I give her to you than to anyone else. Stay here with me.
Genesis 34:4
He told his father: I want you to get Dinah for me as my wife.
Judges 1:12
Caleb said: He that attacks Kirjath-sepher, and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter for a wife.
Judges 12:9
He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters in marriage outside the clan and brought thirty young women from outside the clan for his sons to marry. Ibzan led Israel for seven years,
Judges 14:2
He went home and told his father and mother: A Philistine woman at Timnah caught my attention. Get her for me. I want to marry her.
1 Corinthians 7:36
If any man thinks he behaves improperly toward his virgin, if she is past her youth, let him do what he will, he does not sin if they get married.