🏷 Marriage
281 verse references from Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897) and OpenBible.info topics
Nave’s Topical Bible (1896)
Consanguinous, Abraham and Sarah
Jacob and his wives
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below, in the elaborated text
Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother’s widow)
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
Nuptial feasts
Jesus present at
Ceremony attested by witnesses
The groom exempt one year from military duty
A herald preceded the bridegroom
Wedding robes adorned with jewels
Wives obtained
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
Betrothal made with the spirit
Celibacy deplored
Advised
Obligations under, inferior to duty to God
Not binding after death
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Bride
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Bridegroom
Unclassified scriptures relating to
Gen 2:23
Gen 2:24
Ex 22:16
Ex 22:17
Lev 18:6-18
Lev 20:14
Lev 20:17
Lev 20:19-21
Lev 21:1
Lev 21:7
Lev 21:13-15
Num 36:8
Deut 21:10-14
Deut 24:1-5
Prov 18:22
Prov 21:9
Prov 21:19
Jer 29:6
Hos 2:19
Hos 2:20
Mal 2:13-16
Matt 5:31
Matt 5:32
Matt 19:2-9
Mark 6:17
Mark 6:18
Mark 10:2-12
Luke 16:18
Rom 7:1-3
1 Cor 6:16
1 Cor 7:1-40
1 Cor 9:5
1 Cor 11:11
1 Cor 11:12
1 Tim 3:2
1 Tim 3:12
1 Tim 4:1
1 Tim 4:3
1 Tim 5:14
Heb 13:4
Figurative
Parables from
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Divorce
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Husband
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Wife
Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897)
Divinely instituted
A covenant relationship
Designed for
The happiness of man.
Raising up godly seed.
Preventing fornication.
The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an incentive to, in the early age
Lawful in all
Honourable for all
Should be only in the Lord
Expressed by
Joining together.
Making affinity.
Taking to wife.
Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties
Early introduction of polygamy
Often contracted by parents for children
Consent of the parties necessary to
The Jews
Forbidden to contract, with their near relations.
Forbidden to contract with idolaters.
Often contracted with foreigners.
Sometimes guilty of polygamy.
Often contracted, in their own tribe.
Obliged to contract with a brother’s wife who died without seed.
Considered being debarred from, a reproach.
Considered being debarred from, a cause of grief.
Exempted from going to war immediately after.
Priest not to contract, with divorced or improper persons
The high priest not to contract, with a widow or a divorced or profane person
Modes of demanding women in
Elder daughters usually given in, before the younger
A dowry given to the woman’s parents before
Celebrated
With feasting.
For seven days.
The bride
Received presents before.
Attended by bridesmaids.
Stood on the right of bridegroom.
Called to forget her father’s house.
The bridegroom
Adorned with ornaments.
Attended by many friends.
Presented with gifts.
Crowned with garlands.
Rejoiced over the bride.
Returned with the bride to his house at night.
Garments provided for guests at
Infidelity of those contracted in, punished as if married
Illustrative of
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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), both public domain; digitised by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and arranged by the Bible Topics Dataset (CC BY 4.0). Topics marked OpenBible come from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0), ranked by its readers’ votes. The references follow the King James numbering of verses.
