Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Bible References

Wherefore

Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy na
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet ye rob me. But ye say, How have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Proverbs 30:20
So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no iniquity.
Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.
Jeremiah 8:12
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says LORD.

The lord

Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f
Genesis 31:50
if thou will afflict my daughters, and if thou will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and thee.
Judges 11:10
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, LORD shall be witness between us. Surely according to thy word so will we do.
1 Samuel 12:5
And he said to them, LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.
Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, LORD be a TRUE and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not according to all the word with which LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
Micah 1:2
Hear, ye peoples, all of you. Hearken, O earth, and all who are in it, and let lord LORD be witness against you, LORD from his holy temple.

The wife

Malachi 2:15
And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Proverbs 5:18
Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.
Isaiah 54:6
For LORD has called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit. Even a wife of youth when she is cast off, says thy God.

Thy companion

Genesis 2:18
And LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make a help meet for him.
Proverbs 2:17
who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God
Song of Songs 1:15
Behold, thou are fair, my love, behold thou are fair. Thine eyes are doves.