MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE
- Divinely instituted # Ge 2:24
- A covenant relationship # Mal 2:4
- DESIGNED FOR 3a) The happiness of man
# Ge 2:18
3b) Increasing the human population # Ge 1:28 9:1 3c) Raising up godly seed # Mal 2:15 3d) Preventing fornication # 1Co 7:2 4) The expectation of the promised seed of the woman an incentive to, in the early age # Ge 3:15 4:1 5) Lawful in all # 1Co 7:2,28 1Ti 5:14 6) Honourable for all # Heb 13:4 7) Should be only in the Lord # 1Co 7:39 8) EXPRESSED BY 8a) Joining together # Mt 19:6 8b) Making affinity # 1Ki 3:1 8c) Taking to wife # Ex 2:1 8d) Giving daughters to sons, and sons to daughters # De 7:3 Ezr 9:12 9) Indissoluble during the joint lives of the parties # Mt 19:6 Ro 7:2,3 1Co 7:39 10) Early introduction of polygamy # Ge 4:19 11) Contracted in patriarchal age with near relations # Ge 20:12 24:24 28:2 12) Often contracted by parents for children # Ge 24:49-51 34:6,8 13) Should be with consent of parents # Ge 28:8 Jud 14:2,3 14) Consent of the parties necessary to # Ge 24:57,58 1Sa 18:20 25:41 15) Parents might refuse to give their children in # Ex 22:17 De 7:3 16) THE JEWS 16a) Forbidden to contract, with their near relations # Le 18:6 16b) Forbidden to contract with idolaters # De 7:3,4 Jos 23:12 Ezr 9:11,12 16c) Often contracted with foreigners # 1Ki 11:1 Ne 13:23 16d) Sometimes guilty of polygamy # 1Ki 11:1,3 16e) Careful in contracting for their children # Ge 24:2,3 28:1,2 16f) Betrothed themselves some time before # De 20:7 Jud 14:5,7,8 Mt 1:18 16g) Contracted when young # Pr 2:17 Joe 1:8 16h) Often contracted, in their own tribe # Ex 2:1 Nu 36:6-13 Lu 1:5,27 16i) Obliged to contract with a brother’s wife who died without seed # De 25:5 Mt 22:24 16j) Considered being debarred from, a reproach # Isa 4:1 16k) Considered being debarred from, a cause of grief # Jud 11:38 16l) Often punished by being debarred from # Jer 7:34 16:9 25:10 16m) Were allowed divorce from, because of hardness of their hearts # De 24:1 Mt 19:7,8 16n) Exempted from going to war immediately after # De 20:7 17) Priest not to contract, with divorced or improper persons # Le 21:7 18) The high priest not to contract, with a widow or a divorced or profane person # Le 21:14 19) Contracted at the gate and before witnesses # Ru 4:1,10,11 20) Modes of demanding women in # Ge 24:3,4 34:6,8 1Sa 25:39,40 21) Elder daughters usually given in, before the younger # Ge 29:26 22) A dowry given to the woman’s parents before # Ge 29:18 34:12 1Sa 18:27,28 Ho 3:2 23) CELEBRATED 23a) With great rejoicing # Jer 33:11 Joh 3:29 23b) With feasting # Ge 29:22 Jud 14:10 Mt 22:2,3 Joh 2:1-10 23c) For seven days # Jud 14:12 24) A benediction pronounced after # Ge 24:60 Ru 4:11,12 25) THE BRIDE 25a) Received presents before # Ge 24:53 25b) Given a handmaid at # Ge 24:59 29:24,29 25c) Adorned with jewels for # Isa 49:18 61:10 25d) Gorgeously apparelled # Ps 45:13,14 25e) Attended by bridesmaids # Ps 45:9 25f) Stood on the right of bridegroom # Ps 45:9 25g) Called to forget her father’s house # Ps 45:10 26) THE BRIDEGROOM 26a) Adorned with ornaments # Isa 61:10 26b) Attended by many friends # Jud 14:11 Joh 3:29 26c) Presented with gifts # Ps 45:12 26d) Crowned with garlands # So 3:11 26e) Rejoiced over the bride # Isa 62:5 26f) Returned with the bride to his house at night # Mt 25:1-6 27) Garments provided for guests at # Mt 22:12 28) Infidelity of those contracted in, punished as if married # De 22:23,24 Mt 1:19 29) ILLUSTRATIVE OF 29a) God’s union with the Jewish nation # Isa 54:5 Jer 3:14 Ho 2:19,20 29b) Christ’s union with his church # Eph 5:23,24,32