Genesis 27:46
Rebekah also said to Isaac, “These foreign women whom Esau has married, who are descendants of Heth, are making my life miserable. I would prefer to die than to see Jacob marry a woman from the descendants of Heth in this area!”
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Genesis 24:3Knowing that Yahweh God who created the heavens and the earth is listening, promise that you will not get a wife for my son, Isaac, from the women here in Canaan.
Genesis 26:35Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
Genesis 34:1One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the women in that area.
1 Kings 19:4Then he went by himself further south into the desert. He walked all day. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that Yahweh would allow him to die. He said, “Yahweh, I’ve had enough. So allow me to die, because for me to live is no better than being with my ancestors who have died.”
Job 7:16I detest continuing to be alive; I do not want to live for many years [HYP]. Allow me to be alone, because I will be alive for only a very short remaining time [HYP].
Jonah 4:3So now, O Yahweh, since you will not destroy Nineveh city as you said you would, allow me to die, because it would be better for me to die than to continue to live.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 27:42-46
Jacob's Life Threatened by Esau. ( b. c. 1760.) 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. 42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee… Read the whole commentary →