Bible Concordances
Marriage

Torrey's Topical Textbook

• Divinely instituted
  Genesis 2:24

• A covenant relationship
  Malachi 2:4

• DESIGNED FOR
  • The happiness of man
    Genesis 2:18
  • Increasing the human population
    Genesis 1:28; 9:1
  • Raising up godly seed
    Malachi 2:15
  • Preventing fornication
    1 Corinthians 7:2

• The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an Incentive to, in the early age
  Genesis 3:15; 4:1

• Lawful in all
  1 Corinthians 7:2,28; 1 Timothy 5:14

• Honourable for all
  Hebrews 13:4

• Should be only in the Lord
  1 Corinthians 7:39

• EXPRESSED BY
  • Joining together
    Matthew 19:6
  • Making affinity
    1 Kings 3:1
  • Taking to wife
    Exodus 2:1
  • Giving daughters to sons, and sons to daughters
    Deuteronomy 7:3; Ezra 9:12

• Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties
  Matthew 19:6; Romans 7:2,3; 1 Corinthians 7:39

• Early introduction of polygamy
  Genesis 4:19

• Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations
  Genesis 20:12; 24:24; 28:2

• Often contracted by parents for children
  Genesis 24:49-51; 34:6,8

• Should be with consent of parents
  Genesis 28:8; Judges 14:2,3

• Consent of the parties necessary to
  Genesis 24:57,58; 1 Samuel 18:20; 25:41

• Parents might refuse to give their children in
  Exodus 22:17; Deuteronomy 7:3

• THE JEWS
  • Forbidden to contract, with their near relations
    Leviticus 18:6
  • Forbidden to contract with idolaters
    Deuteronomy 7:3,4; Joshua 23:12; Ezra 9:11,12
  • Often contracted with foreigners
    1 Kings 11:1; Nehemiah 13:23
  • Sometimes guilty of polygamy
    1 Kings 11:1,3
  • Careful in contracting for their children
    Genesis 24:2,3; 28:1,2
  • Betrothed themselves some time before
    Deuteronomy 20:7; Judges 14:5,7,8; Matthew 1:18
  • Contracted when young
    Proverbs 2:17; Joel 1:8
  • Often contracted, in their own tribe
    Exodus 2:1; Numbers 36:6-13; Luke 1:5,27
  • Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died without Seed
    Deuteronomy 25:5; Matthew 22:24
  • Considered being debarred from, a reproach
    Isaiah 4:1
  • Considered being debarred from, a cause of grief
    Judges 11:38
  • Often punished by being debarred from
    Jeremiah 7:34; 16:9; 25:10
  • Were allowed divorce from, because of hardness of their Hearts
    Deuteronomy 24:1; Matthew 19:7,8
  • Exempted from going to war immediately after
    Deuteronomy 20:7

• Priest not to contract, with divorced or improper persons
  Leviticus 21:7

• The high priest not to contract, with a widow or a divorced Or profane person
  Leviticus 21:14

• Contracted at the gate and before witnesses
  Ruth 4:1,10,11

• Modes of demanding women in
  Genesis 24:3,4; 34:6,8; 1 Samuel 25:39,40

• Elder daughters usually given in, before the younger
  Genesis 29:26

• A dowry given to the woman's parents before
  Genesis 29:18; 34:12; 1 Samuel 18:27,28; Hosea 3:2

• CELEBRATED
  • With great rejoicing
    Jeremiah 33:11; John 3:29
  • With feasting
    Genesis 29:22; Judges 14:10; Matthew 22:2,3; John 2:1-10
  • For seven days
    Judges 14:12

• A benediction pronounced after
  Genesis 24:60; Ruth 4:11,12

• THE BRIDE
  • Received presents before
    Genesis 24:53
  • Given a handmaid at
    Genesis 24:59; 29:24,29
  • Adorned with jewels for
    Isaiah 49:18; 61:10
  • Gorgeously apparelled
    Psalm 45:13,14
  • Attended by bridesmaids
    Psalm 45:9
  • Stood on the right of bridegroom
    Psalm 45:9
  • Called to forget her father's house
    Psalm 45:10

• THE BRIDEGROOM
  • Adorned with ornaments
    Isaiah 61:10
  • Attended by many friends
    Judges 14:11; John 3:29
  • Presented with gifts
    Psalm 45:12
  • Crowned with garlands
    Song of Solomon 3:11
  • Rejoiced over the bride
    Isaiah 62:5
  • Returned with the bride to his house at night
    Matthew 25:1-6

• Garments provided for guests at
  Matthew 22:12

• Infidelity of those contracted in, punished as if married
  Deuteronomy 22:23,24; Matthew 1:19

• ILLUSTRATIVE OF
  • God's union with the Jewish nation
    Isaiah 54:5; Jeremiah 3:14; Hosea 2:19,20
  • Christ's union with his church
    Ephesians 5:23,24,32