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Feature Pages(3)
- FeatureSong of Solomon — the Study GuideThe Bible's one book of pure love poetry: the six-movement garden path from longing to the wedding to the seal upon the heart, the two refrains that carry it, and the church's two-thousand-year argument over what — and whom — it is really about.
- FeatureThe LambAnnounced as the Lion of Judah, seen as a Lamb standing as though slain — the reversal that runs the whole book of Revelation.
- FeatureHosea — the Study GuideGod stakes His own covenant love on a broken human marriage. The book's own zig-zag — judgment, a flicker of hope, deeper judgment, the deepest compassion at chapter 11, and a final unconditional healing at chapter 14.
Verses(5+)
- VerseHebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- VerseLuke 20:34Jesus answered, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
- Verse1 Chronicles 2:35Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore to him Attai.
- VerseLeviticus 21:4He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.
- Verse2 Chronicles 18:1Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.
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Words (Strong's)(5+)
- WordG1062 γάμος · gámos (Greek)nuptials
- WordH2859 חָתַן · châthan (Hebrew)to give (a daughter) away in marriage
- WordH1984 הָלַל · hâlal (Hebrew)to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color)
- WordG1061 γαμίσκω · gamískō (Greek)to espouse (a daughter to a husband)
- WordH5772 עוֹנָה · ʻôwnâh (Hebrew)sexual (cohabitation)
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Authors(5+)
- AuthorJohn WesleyJohn Wesley was born on June 17, 1703, at Epworth in Lincolnshire, the fifteenth of nineteen children born to Samuel Wesley, the rector, and Susanna, who taught the household…
- AuthorLanfranc of CanterburyLanfranc was born at Pavia in Lombardy about 1010, the son of a city magistrate, and trained in law. He crossed the Alps in his thirties, taught for a while in France, and then…
- AuthorArethas of CaesareaArethas was born at Patras, in the Peloponnese, about 860. He came to Constantinople, studied under Photios, and rose through the church until, around 902, he was made…
- AuthorMacrina the YoungerMacrina was born about 327 at Caesarea in Cappadocia, the eldest of ten children in one of the most remarkable families in Christian history. Her grandmother Macrina the Elder…
- AuthorMagnus Felix EnnodiusMagnus Felix Ennodius was born in 473 or 474, probably at Arles in southern Gaul, into a Roman family of rank that had lost most of its money. Orphaned young, he was raised in…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resource1 Maccabees 9:41Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of their melody into lamentation.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 1:27Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness,
- Study resourceTobit 8:20For before the days of the marriage were finished, Raguel had said unto him by an oath, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the marriage were expired;
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 14:24They kept neither lives nor marriages any longer undefiled: but either one slew another traiterously, or grieved him by adultery.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 10:58Where king Alexander meeting him, he gave unto him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, as the manner of kings is.
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