Genesis 6:2
that the + 6:2 Alex. angels of God. sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
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Genesis 4:26And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enos: he + 4:26 Or, trusted, q.d. had faith to call &c. hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.
Genesis 24:3and I will adjure you by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that you take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Chananites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.
Genesis 27:46And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of the sons of Chet; if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of this land, therefore should I live?
Exodus 4:22And you shall say to Pharao, These things says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn.
Deuteronomy 7:3neither shall you⌃ contract marriages with them: you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son.
Joshua 23:12For if you⌃ shall turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:2-3
Depravity of the World. ( b. c. 2469.) 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. For the glory of God's justice, and for warning to a wicked world, before the history of the ruin of the old world, we have a full account of its degeneracy, its apostasy from God and rebellion against him. The destroying of it was an act, not of an… Read the whole commentary →