TOPICAL BIBLE
Marriage
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Esther 2:2Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.Esther 2:3Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;Esther 2:4and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.Esther 2:8So it happened, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.Esther 2:9The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.Esther 2:10Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.Esther 2:11Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.Esther 2:12Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).Esther 2:13The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.Esther 2:14In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.Esther 2:18Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.Psalm 45:12The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.Proverbs 18:22Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.Isaiah 4:1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”Isaiah 8:1Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;’Isaiah 8:2and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”Isaiah 8:3I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’Isaiah 49:18Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.Isaiah 54:5For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.Isaiah 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.Isaiah 62:4You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.Isaiah 62:5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.Jeremiah 2:32“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.Jeremiah 3:14“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.Jeremiah 16:9For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.Jeremiah 29:6Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don’t be diminished.Jeremiah 31:32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.Hosea 1:2When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”Hosea 2:19I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.Hosea 2:20I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.Hosea 3:2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.Hosea 12:12Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.Malachi 2:11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.Malachi 2:13This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.Malachi 2:14Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.Malachi 2:15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.Malachi 2:16For I hate divorce,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.Matthew 1:18Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.Matthew 5:31“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’Matthew 5:32but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.Matthew 19:2Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.Matthew 19:3Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”Matthew 19:4He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,Matthew 19:5and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’Matthew 19:6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”Matthew 19:7They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”Matthew 19:8He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.Matthew 19:9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”Matthew 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.Matthew 22:2“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,Matthew 22:12and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.Matthew 22:24saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.’Matthew 22:29But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.Matthew 22:30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.Matthew 25:1“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.Matthew 25:2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.Matthew 25:3Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,