6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
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Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: …
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)We are here told, I. That Jeremiah wrote to the captives in Babylon, in the name of the Lord. Jeconiah had surrendered himself a prisoner, with the queen his mother, the chamberlains of his household, called here the eunuchs , and many of the princes of Judah and Jerusalem , who were at that time the most active men; the carpenters and smiths likewise, being demanded, were yielded up, that those w…
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