'Marriage' in the Bible

"It is not our custom here," Laban replied, "to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual intercourse with her.

Then Samson's father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage. Samson hosted a party there, for this was customary for bridegrooms to do.

The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father's house exempt from tax obligations in Israel."

Then Saul said to David, "Here's my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior for me and fight the battles of the Lord." For Saul thought, "There's no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!"

When the time came for Merab, Saul's daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.

when David, along with his men, went out and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king's son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh's daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

Jehoshaphat was very wealthy and greatly respected. He made an alliance by marriage with Ahab,

Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.'

"We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

"'Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

His intention will be to come with the strength of his entire kingdom, and he will form alliances. He will give the king of the south a daughter in marriage in order to destroy the kingdom, but it will not turn out to his advantage.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage -- right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

So Jesus said to them, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.