Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

If jacob

General references

Bible References

I am

Numbers 11:15
So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”
Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,
Job 7:16
“I waste away; I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 14:13
“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”

Because

Genesis 26:34
When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
Genesis 28:8
So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac;
Genesis 34:1
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

If jacob

Genesis 24:3
and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

General references

Genesis 34:9
Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.