My Wife

• Ark

But with thee will I establish My covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy Wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Why saidst thou, She is My sister? so I might have taken her to me to Wife: now therefore behold thy Wife, take her, and go thy way.

• Covenant

And God said, Sarah thy Wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

• Deception
• Falsehood

And Abraham said of Sarah his Wife, She is My sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for My Wife's sake.

And yet indeed she is My sister; she is the daughter of My father, but not the daughter of My mother; and she became My Wife.

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:

But thou shalt go unto My country, and to My kindred, and take a Wife unto My son Isaac.

The LORD God of heaven, which took me from My father's house, and from the land of My kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a Wife unto My son from thence.

And Sarah My master's Wife bare a son to My master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

And My master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a Wife to My son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

But thou shalt go unto My father's house, and to My kindred, and take a Wife unto My son.

And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a Wife for My son of My kindred, and of My father's house:

• Deception
• Temptation

And the men of the place asked him of his Wife; and he said, She is My sister: for he feared to say, She is My Wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy Wife: and how saidst thou, She is My sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

• Falsehood

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of My life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a Wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall My life do me?

And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me My Wife, for My days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of My son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to Wife.

But he refused, and said unto his master's Wife, Behold, My master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to My hand;

And thy servant My father said unto us, Ye know that My Wife bare me two sons:

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love My master, My Wife, and My children; I will not go out free:

And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave My daughter unto this man to Wife, and he hateth her;

• Court

And if the man like not to take his brother's Wife, then let his brother's Wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of My husband's brother.

And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah My daughter to Wife.

And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah My daughter to Wife.

Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all My people, that thou goest to take a Wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

And Samson's Wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of My people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it My father nor My mother, and shall I tell it thee?

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his Wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to My Wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

• Marriage

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the Wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be My Wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

And Saul said to David, Behold My elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to Wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

• Prostration
• King
• Abigail

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of My reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to Wife. And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to Wife. And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of My lord. And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his Wife.

And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me My Wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

• Uriah
• Patriotism

And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and My lord Joab, and the servants of My lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with My Wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to My son to Wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

• Holy
• Ark

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My Wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.

And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to My son to Wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

• Women

My breath is strange to My Wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

Then let My Wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even My Wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not My Wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or Wife, or children, or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or Wife, or children, or lands, for My sake, and the gospel's,

• Miracles
• Zacharias
• Sign

And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and My Wife well stricken in years.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and Wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.