Nave’s Topical Bible
Marriage
106 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Consanguinous, Abraham and Sarah
- Isaac and Rebekah
- Jacob and his wives
See below, in the elaborated ext
- Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Genesis 38:8,11; Deuteronomy 25:5-10; Ruth 4:5; Matthew 22:24; Mark 12:19-23; Luke 20:28
- Parents contract for their children
- Hagar selects a wife for Ishmael
- Abraham for Isaac
- Laban arranges for his daughters' marriage
- Samson asks his parents to procure him a wife
- Parents' consent requires in the Mosaic law
- Presents given to parents to secure their favor
Genesis 24:53; Genesis 34:12; Deuteronomy 22:29; 1 Samuel 18:25; Hosea 3:2
- Nuptial feasts
- Jesus present at
- Ceremony attested by witnesses
- The groom exempt one year from military duty
- Bridal ornaments
- Bridal presents
- A herald preceded the bridegroom
- Wedding robes adorned with jewels
- Wives obtained
- By purchase
- By kidnapping
- Given by Kings
- Daughters given in, as rewards of valor
- Wives taken by edict
- David gave one hundred Philistine foreskins for a wife
- Wives among the Israelites must be Israelites
Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3-4; 1 Chronicles 23:22; Ezra 9:1-2,12; Nehemiah 10:30; Nehemiah 13:26-27; Malachi 2:11; 1 Corinthians 7:39; 2 Corinthians 6:14
- Betrothal a quasi-marriage
- Betrothal made with the spirit
- Celibacy deplored
- Advised
- Obligations under, inferior to duty to God
- Not binding after death
See BRIDE
See BRIDEGROOM
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Genesis 2:23-24; Exodus 22:16-17; Leviticus 18:6-18; Leviticus 20:14,17,19-21; Leviticus 21:1,7,13-15; Numbers 36:8; Deuteronomy 21:10-14; Deuteronomy 24:1-5; Proverbs 18:22; Proverbs 21:9,19; Jeremiah 29:6; Hosea 2:19-20; Malachi 2:13-16; Matthew 5:31-32; Mark 6:17-18; Mark 10:2-12; Matthew 19:2-9; Luke 16:18; Romans 7:1-3; 1 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Corinthians 7:1-40; 1 Corinthians 9:5; 1 Corinthians 11:11-12; 1 Timothy 3:2,12; 1 Timothy 4:1,3; 1 Timothy 5:14; Hebrews 13:4
- FIGURATIVE
Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 62:4-5; Jeremiah 3:14; Jeremiah 31:32; Hosea 1:2; Hosea 2:19-20; Ephesians 5:30-32; Revelation 19:7-9
Bible verses about “Marriage”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 11:29And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
- Genesis 12:13Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
- Genesis 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
- Genesis 20:9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
- Genesis 20:10And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
- Genesis 20:11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
- Genesis 20:12And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 20:13And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
- Genesis 20:14And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
- Genesis 20:15And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
- Genesis 20:16And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.
- Genesis 24:3And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
- Genesis 24:4But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
- Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Genesis 28:2Arise, go to Padan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
- Genesis 29:15And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
- Genesis 29:16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
- Genesis 29:17Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
- Genesis 29:18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
- Genesis 29:19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
- Genesis 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
- Genesis 29:21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
- Genesis 29:22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
- Genesis 29:23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
- Genesis 29:24And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
- Genesis 29:25And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
- Genesis 29:26And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
- Genesis 29:27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
- Genesis 29:28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
- Genesis 29:29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
- Genesis 29:30And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Genesis 38:8And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
- Genesis 38:11Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
- Deuteronomy 25:5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.
- Deuteronomy 25:6And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 25:7And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.
- Deuteronomy 25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
- Deuteronomy 25:9Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.
- Deuteronomy 25:10And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
- Ruth 4:5Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.