Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

General references

Bible References

The inheritance

Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
Deuteronomy 21:16
then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

And a

Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 18:22
He who finds a wife finds a good thing
And obtains favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 31:10
An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.
Genesis 24:7
The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 28:1
So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
James 1:17
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

General references

Matthew 19:10
The disciples *said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”