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?

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I am

Numbers 11:15
If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I've found favor in your eyes, because I don't want to keep staring at all of this misery!"
1 Kings 19:4
and ran for a day's journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, "Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I'm not better than my ancestors!"
Job 3:20
"Why does God give light to the sufferer or life to the bitter person:
Job 7:16
I hate the thought of living forever! Leave me alone, because my days are pointless."
Job 14:13
"Won't you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore, LORD, please kill me, because it's better for me to die than to live!"

Because

Genesis 26:34
When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 28:8
Esau realized that Canaan women didn't please his father Isaac,
Genesis 34:1
Some time later, Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.

If jacob

Genesis 24:3
as a promise to the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you won't acquire a wife for my son from the Canaanite women among whom I'm living.

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

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