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Ask a QuestionIn the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord [which his father had closed] and repaired them.
And by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of the cases of the men married to foreign wives.
In the twenty-seventh year [after King Jehoiachin was taken to Babylon], in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
And behold, there are some [now] last who will be first [then], and there are some [now] first who will be last [then].
So that we who first hoped in Christ [who first put our confidence in Him have been destined and appointed to] live for the praise of His glory!
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
But you shall go to my country and to my relatives and take This chapter is highly illustrative of God the Father, Who sends forth His Holy Spirit to win the consent of the individual soul to become the bride of His Son. Keep these resemblances constantly in mind as you read and see how the story unfolds. First meet the Father and note His concern about His Son's bride. Then get acquainted with the Holy Spirit's great, selfless heart, Whose one purpose is to win the girl for His Master's Son. Then meet the Son and note His tenderness as He claims His bride. The longest chapter in Genesis is devoted to this important story.a wife for my son Isaac.
They all handle the sword and are expert in war; every man has his sword upon his thigh, that fear be not excited in the night.
[Hearing this] the king was infuriated; and he sent his soldiers and put those murderers to death and burned their city.
Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maid to my husband; and she called his name Issachar [hired].
And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by continually.
Surely, as a wife treacherously and faithlessly departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously and faithlessly with Me, O house of Israel, says the Lord.
And instantly she fell down at his feet and died; and the young men entering found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
And if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she should not leave or divorce him.
And any woman who [publicly] prays or prophesies (teaches, refutes, reproves, admonishes, or comforts) when she is bareheaded dishonors her head (her husband); it is the same as [if her head were] shaved.
And the number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.
Her husband is known in the [city's] gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
But to the married people I give charge--not I but the Lord--that the wife is not to separate from her husband.
So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her Egyptian maid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his [secondary] wife.
Therefore Sarah laughed to herself, saying, After I have become aged shall I have pleasure and delight, my lord (husband), being old also?