Genesis 29:30 Cross References - MSTC

³⁰ So lay he by Rachel also, and loved Rachel more than Lea, and served him yet seven years more.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved her well, and said, "I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter."

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

³¹ When the LORD saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.

²⁵ As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place and country; ²⁶ give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what service I have done thee."

¹⁵ he counteth us even as strangers, for he hath sold us, and hath even eaten up the price of us.

⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times.

²⁰ And we answered my lord, 'We have a father that is old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.'

²⁷ Then said thy servant our father unto us, 'Ye know that my wife bare me two sons.

¹⁵ If a man have two wives, one loved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the loved and also the hated;

¹⁷ Then said Saul to David, "Behold, my eldest daughter Merab: her I will give thee to wife; only play the man and fight the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, "Mine hand shall not be upon him, but the hand of the Philistines." ¹⁸ And David answered Saul, "What am I? And what is my life or the kindred of my father in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?" ¹⁹ Howbeit, when the time was come that Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David she was given unto Adriel, a Meholathite, to wife. ²⁰ Nevertheless, Michal Saul's daughter loved David. And when it was showed Saul, the thing pleased him well. ²¹ And he said, "I will give him her that she may be a snare to him, to bring the hand of the Philistines upon him." And Saul said to David, "Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law again." ²² And Saul commanded his servants to commune with David secretly and say, "Behold, the king hath a favour to thee, and all his servants love thee — be therefore the king's son-in-law." ²³ And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. But David answered, "Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, when I am a poor man and of small reputation?" ²⁴ And Saul's servants told him again, saying, "Of this manner answered David." ²⁵ Then said Saul, "This wise say to David: 'The king careth for no other dowry but for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies." For Saul thought to make David fall into the hands of the Philistines. ²⁶ Then his servants told David these words, and it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. ²⁷ And shortly after that, David arose with his men, and went, and slew of the Philistines, two hundred men; and brought their foreskins, and satisfied the king thereof to be his son-in-law. And so Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

¹² Jacob fled into the land of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

²⁴ No man can serve two masters: For either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

³⁷ He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

²⁶ "If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

²⁵ He that loveth his life shall destroy it: And he that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto life eternal.