MARRIAGE
- - Divinely instituted: ... Ge 2:24|
- - A covenant relationship: ... Mal 2:4|
- - DESIGNED FOR
...... The happiness of man: ... Ge 2:18|
...... Increasing the human population: ... Ge 1:28;
9:1|
...... Raising up godly seed: ... Mal 2:15|
...... Preventing fornication: ... 1Co 7:2|
- - The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an incentive
to, in the early age: ... Ge 3:15; 4:1|
- - Lawful in all: ... 1Co 7:2,28; 1Ti 5:14|
- - Honourable for all: ... Heb 13:4|
- - Should be only in the Lord: ... 1Co 7:39|
- - EXPRESSED BY
...... Joining together: ... Mt 19:6|
...... Making affinity: ... 1Ki 3:1|
...... Taking to wife: ... Ex 2:1|
...... Giving daughters to sons, and sons to daughters: ...
De 7:3; Ezr 9:12|
- - Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties: ...
Mt 19:6; Ro 7:2,3; 1Co 7:39|
- - Early introduction of polygamy: ... Ge 4:19|
- - Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations: ...
Ge 20:12; 24:24; 28:2|
- - Often contracted by parents for children: ... Ge
24:49-51; 34:6,8|
- - Should be with consent of parents: ... Ge 28:8;
Jud 14:2,3|
- - Consent of the parties necessary to: ... Ge 24:57,58;
1Sa 18:20; 25:41|
- - Parents might refuse to give their children in: ...
Ex 22:17; De 7:3|
- - THE JEWS
...... Forbidden to contract, with their near relations: ...
Le 18:6|
...... Forbidden to contract with idolaters: ... De
7:3,4; Jos 23:12; Ezr 9:11,12|
...... Often contracted with foreigners: ... 1Ki 11:1;
Ne 13:23|
...... Sometimes guilty of polygamy: ... 1Ki 11:1,3|
...... Careful in contracting for their children: ...
Ge 24:2,3; 28:1,2|
...... Betrothed themselves some time before: ... De
20:7; Jud 14:5,7,8; Mt 1:18|
...... Contracted when young: ... Pr 2:17; Joe 1:8|
...... Often contracted, in their own tribe: ... Ex
2:1; Nu 36:6-13; Lu 1:5,27|
...... Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died
without seed: ... De 25:5; Mt 22:24|
...... Considered being debarred from, a reproach: ...
Isa 4:1|
...... Considered being debarred from, a cause of grief: ...
Jud 11:38|
...... Often punished by being debarred from: ... Jer
7:34; 16:9; 25:10|
...... Were allowed divorce from, because of hardness of their
hearts: ... De 24:1; Mt 19:7,8|
...... Exempted from going to war immediately after: ...
De 20:7|
- - Priest not to contract, with divorced or improper persons:
... Le 21:7|
- - The high priest not to contract, with a widow or a divorced
or profane person: ... Le 21:14|
- - Contracted at the gate and before witnesses: ...
Ru 4:1,10,11|
- - Modes of demanding women in: ... Ge 24:3,4; 34:6,8;
1Sa 25:39,40|
- - Elder daughters usually given in, before the younger:
... Ge 29:26|
- - A dowry given to the woman's parents before: ...
Ge 29:18; 34:12; 1Sa 18:27,28; Ho 3:2|
- - CELEBRATED
...... With great rejoicing: ... Jer 33:11; Joh 3:29|
...... With feasting: ... Ge 29:22; Jud 14:10; Mt 22:2,3;
Joh 2:1-10|
...... For seven days: ... Jud 14:12|
- - A benediction pronounced after: ... Ge 24:60; Ru
4:11,12|
- - THE BRIDE
...... Received presents before: ... Ge 24:53|
...... Given a handmaid at: ... Ge 24:59; 29:24,29|
...... Adorned with jewels for: ... Isa 49:18; 61:10|
...... Gorgeously apparelled: ... Ps 45:13,14|
...... Attended by bridesmaids: ... Ps 45:9|
...... Stood on the right of bridegroom: ... Ps 45:9|
...... Called to forget her father's house: ... Ps 45:10|
- - THE BRIDEGROOM
...... Adorned with ornaments: ... Isa 61:10|
...... Attended by many friends: ... Jud 14:11; Joh
3:29|
...... Presented with gifts: ... Ps 45:12|
...... Crowned with garlands: ... So 3:11|
...... Rejoiced over the bride: ... Isa 62:5|
...... Returned with the bride to his house at night: ...
Mt 25:1-6|
- - Garments provided for guests at: ... Mt 22:12|
- - Infidelity of those contracted in, punished as if married:
... De 22:23,24; Mt 1:19|
- - ILLUSTRATIVE OF
...... God's union with the Jewish nation: ... Isa 54:5;
Jer 3:14; Ho 2:19,20|
...... Christ's union with his church: ... Eph 5:23,24,32|
- - Consanguinous, Abraham and Sarah: ... Ge 11:29;
12:13; 20:3,9-16|
- - Isaac and Rebekah: ... Ge 24:3,4,67; 28:2|
- - Jacob and his wives: ... Ge 29:15-30|
- - See below, in the elaborated text
- - Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow):
... Ge 38:8,11; De 25:5-10; Ru 4:5; Mt 22:24; Mr 12:19-23; Lu 20:28|
- - Parents contract for their children
...... Hagar selects a wife for Ishmael: ... Ge 21:21|
...... Abraham for Isaac: ... Ge 24|
...... Laban arranges for his daughters' marriage: ...
Ge 29|
...... Samson asks his parents to procure him a wife: ...
Jud 14:2|
- - Parents' consent requires in the Mosaic law: ...
Ex 22:17|
- - Presents given to parents to secure their favor: ...
Ge 24:53; 34:12; De 22:29; 1Sa 18:25; Ho 3:2|
- - Nuptial feasts: ... Ge 29:22; Jud 14:12; Es 2:18;
Mt 22:11,12|
- - Jesus present at: ... Joh 2:1-5|
- - Ceremony attested by witnesses: ... Ru 4:1-11; Isa
8:1-3|
- - The groom exempt one year from military duty: ...
De 24:5|
- - Bridal ornaments: ... Isa 49:18; Jer 2:32|
- - Bridal presents: ... Ge 24:53; Ps 45:12|
- - A herald preceded the bridegroom: ... Mt 25:6|
- - Wedding robes adorned with jewels: ... Isa 61:10|
- - Wives obtained
...... By purchase: ... Ge 29:20; Ru 4:10; Ho 3:2; 12:12|
...... By kidnapping: ... Jud 21:21-23|
- - Given by Kings: ... 1Sa 17:25; 18:17,21|
- - Daughters given in, as rewards of valor: ... Jud
1:12; 1Sa 17:25; 18:27|
- - Wives taken by edict: ... Es 2:2-4,8-14|
- - David gave one hundred Philistine foreskins for a wife:
... 2Sa 3:14|
- - Wives among the Israelites must be Israelites: ...
Ex 34:16; De 7:3,4; 1Ch 23:22; Ezr 9:1,2,12; Ne 10:30; 13:26,27; Mal 2:11;
1Co 7:39; 2Co 6:14|
- - Betrothal a quasi-marriage: ... Mt 1:18; Lu 1:27|
- - Betrothal made with the spirit: ... Eze 16:8|
- - Celibacy deplored: ... Jud 11:38; Isa 4:1; Jer 16:9|
- - Advised: ... 1Co 7:7,8,24-40|
- - Obligations under, inferior to duty to God: ...
De 13:6-10; Mt 19:29; Lu 14:26|
- - Not binding after death: ... Mt 22:29,30; Mr 12:24,25|
- - See BRIDE
- - See BRIDEGROOM
- - UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO: ... Ge 2:23,24;
Ex 22:16,17; Le 18:6-18; 20:14,17,19-21; 21:1,7,13-15; Nu 36:8; De 21:10-14;
24:1-5; Pr 18:22; 21:9,19; Jer 29:6; Ho 2:19,20; Mal 2:13-16; Mt 5:31,32;
Mr 6:17,18; 10:2-12; Mt 19:2-9; Lu 16:18; Ro 7:1-3; 1Co 6:16; 7:1-40; 9:5;
11:11,12; 1Ti 3:2,12; 4:1,3; 5:14; Heb 13:4|
- - FIGURATIVE: ... Isa 54:5; 62:4,5; Jer 3:14; 31:32;
Ho 1:2; 2:19,20; Eph 5:30-32; Re 19:7-9|
...... Parables from: ... Mt 22:2; 25:1-10|
...... See DIVORCE
...... See HUSBAND
...... See WIFE
[Back] MARS' HILL
- - (The same as Areopagus)
- - A hill in Athens: ... Ac 17:19-34|
[Back] MARTYRDOM
- - Is death endured for the word of God, and
testimony of Christ: ... Re 6:9; 20:4|
- - General scriptures concerning: ... Ps 44:22;
Mt 10:21,22,39; 16:25; 23:34,35; 24:9; Mr 13:12; Lu 9:24; 11:50; 21:16,17;
Joh 12:25; Ro 8:36; 1Co 13:3; Re 6:9-11; 11:7-12; 12:11; 16:6; 17:6|
- - See PERSECUTION
- - INSTANCES OF
...... Abel: ... Ge 4:3-8; 1Jo 3:12|
...... Ahimelech and his fellow priests: ...
1Sa 22:18,19|
...... Prophets and Saints of old: ... 1Ki
18:4,13; 19:10; Lu 11:50,51; Heb 11:37|
...... Prophets killed by Jezebel: ... 1Ki
18:4,13|
...... Urijah: ... Jer 26:23|
...... Zechariah: ... 2Ch 24:21,22|
...... Peter: ... Joh 21:18,19|
...... Christians: ... Ac 9:1; 22:4; 26:10|
...... Antipas: ... Re 2:13|
...... John the Baptist: ... Mr 6:18-28|
...... Jesus: ... See JESUS
...... Stephen: ... Ac 7:58-60|
...... James the apostle: ... Ac 12:2|
...... The prophets: ... Mt 22:6; 23:35;
Ro 11:3; 1Th 2:15; Heb 11:32-37|
- - SAINTS
...... Forewarned of: ... Mt 10:21; 24:9;
Joh 16:2|
...... Should not fear: ... Mt 10:28; Re
2:10|
...... Should be prepared for: ... Mt 16:24,25;
Ac 21:13|
...... Should resist sin to: ... Heb 12:4|
- - Reward of: ... Re 2:10; 6:11|
- - Inflicted at the instigation of the devil:
... Re 2:10,13|
- - The Apostasy guilty of inflicting: ...
Re 17:6; 18:24|
- - Of saints, shall be avenged: ... Lu
11:50,51; Re 18:20-24|
[Back] MASKING
- - By Tamar: ... Ge 38:14|
[Back] MASON
- - A trade
...... In the time of David: ... 2Sa 5:11|
...... Of later times: ... 2Ki 12:12; 22:6; 1Ch 14:1;
Ezr 3:7|
[Back] MASSACRE
- - Authorized by Moses: ... De 20:13,16|
- - Decree to destroy the Jews: ... Es 3|
- - INSTANCES OF
...... Inhabitants
...... Of Heshbon: ... De 2:34|
...... Of Bashan: ... De 3:6|
...... Of Ai: ... Jos 8:24-26|
...... Of Hazor: ... Jos 11:11,12|
...... Of the cities of the seven kings: ... Jos 10:28-40|
...... Midianites: ... Nu 31:7,8|
...... Prophets of Baal: ... 1Ki 18:40|
...... Worshipers of Baal: ... 2Ki 10:18-28|
...... Sons of Ahab: ... 2Ki 10:1-8|
...... Royal seed of Athaliah: ... 2Ki 11:1|
...... Inhabitants of Tiphsah: ... 2Ki 15:16|
...... Edomites: ... 2Ki 14:7|
...... See CAPTIVE
[Back] MASTER WORKMAN
- - General scriptures concerning: ... Pr 8:30; 1Co
3:10|
- - INSTANCES OF
...... Tubal-cain: ... Ge 4:22|
...... Bezaleel: ... Ex 31:2-11; 35:30-35|
...... Hiram: ... 1Ki 7:13-50; 2Ch 2:13,14; 4:11-18|
...... See ART
[Back] MASTER
- - Jesus called: ... Mt 8:19; 10:25; 23:8; 26:18,25,49;
Mr 14:45; Lu 8:24; Joh 13:13,14|
- - Jesus prohibited the appellation: ... Mt 23:8|
- - SCRIPTURES RELATING TO MASTERS OF SERVANTS: ...
Ex 21:20,21,26,27; Le 19:13; 25:43; De 5:14; 24:14,15; Job 31:13-15; Pr
22:16; 29:12,21; Jer 22:13; Mal 3:5; Ro 4:4; Eph 6:9; Col 4:1; 1Ti 5:18;
Phm 1:10-16; Jas 5:4|
...... See SERVANT
- - GOOD MASTER, INSTANCES OF
...... Abraham: ... Ge 18:19|
...... Job: ... Job 31:13-15|
...... The centurion: ... Lu 7:2|
- - UNJUST MASTER, INSTANCES OF
...... Sarah to Hagar: ... Ge 16:6|
...... Laban to Jacob: ... Ge 31:7|
...... Potiphar's wife to Joseph: ... Ge 39:7-20|
- - Authority of, established: ... Col 3:22; 1Pe 2:18|
- - SHOULD, WITH THEIR HOUSEHOLDS,
...... Worship God: ... Ge 35:3|
...... Fear God: ... Ac 10:2|
...... Serve God: ... Jos 24:15|
...... Observe the Sabbath: ... Ex 20:10; De 5:12-14|
...... Put away idols: ... Ge 35:2|
- - Should select faithful servants: ... Ge 24:2; Ps
101:6,7|
- - Should receive faithful advice from servants: ...
2Ki 5:13,14|
- - DUTY OF, TOWARD SERVANTS;
...... To act justly: ... Job 31:13,15; Col 4:1|
...... To deal with them in the fear of God: ... Eph
6:9; Col 4:1|
...... To esteem them highly, if saints: ... Phm 1:16|
...... To take care of them in sickness: ... Lu 7:3|
...... To forbear threatening them: ... Eph 6:9|
...... Not to defraud them: ... Ge 31:7|
...... Not to keep back their wages: ... Le 19:13; De
24:15|
...... Not to rule over them with rigour: ... Le 25:43;
De 24:14|
- - Benevolent, blessed: ... De 15:18|
- - Unjust, denounced: ... Jer 22:13; Jas 5:4|
- - Good-Exemplified
...... Abraham: ... Ge 18:19|
...... Jacob: ... Ge 35:2|
...... Joshua: ... Jos 24:15|
...... Centurion: ... Lu 7:2,3|
...... Cornelius: ... Ac 10:2|
- - Bad-Exemplified
...... Egyptians: ... Ex 1:13,14|
...... Nabal: ... 1Sa 25:17|
...... Amalekite: ... 1Sa 30:13|
[Back] MATERIALISM
- - General scriptures concerning: ... Ac 23:8|
- - See INFIDELITY
[Back] MATTOCK
- - General scriptures concerning: ... 1Sa 13:20,21;
Isa 7:25|
[Back] MAUL
- - General scriptures concerning: ... Pr 25:18|
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