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.
Thy companion
Bible References
Wherefore
Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, How have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
Proverbs 30:20
This is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.
Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted, they say, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.
Jeremiah 8:12
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their punishment they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
The lord
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
Genesis 31:50
If you shall afflict my daughters, or if you shall take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and you.
Judges 11:10
And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to your words.
1 Samuel 12:5
And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things which the LORD your God shall send by you to us.
Micah 1:2
Hear, all you people; hearken, O earth, and all that is in it: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
The wife
Malachi 2:15
And did not he make them one? Yet had he the remnant of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Proverbs 5:18
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you perform under the sun.
Isaiah 54:6
For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.
Thy companion
Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable 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, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.