Bible Cross References
served
Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.
Genesis 30:25
And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own land.
Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.
Genesis 31:15
Are we not considered foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and also devoured and consumed our money.
Genesis 31:41
Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
1 Samuel 18:17-27
17
And Saul said to David, Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the battles of Jehovah. For Saul thought, Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
18
And David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?
19
But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.
20
Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing was agreeable in his eyes.
21
And Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, You shall be my son-in-law today.
22
And Saul commanded his servants, Speak with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delighted in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become the king's son-in-law.
23
And Saul's servants spoke those words in David's ears. And David said, Is it a slight thing in your eyes to be a king's son-in-law, seeing as how I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?
24
And the servants of Saul reported to him, saying, In this manner David has spoken.
25
And Saul said, Thus you shall say to David: The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26
And when his servants told David these words, the thing was agreeable in David's eyes, to become the king's son-in-law. And the day had not ended;
27
therefore David rose up and went out, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.
Hosea 12:12
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife; yea, he kept sheep for a wife.