Marriage
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
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
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