Topic
Favoritism
9 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 27:6–17Nave INSTANCES OF — Rebekah, for Jacob
¶ And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice…
- Genesis 29:30Nave INSTANCES OF — Jacob, for Rachel
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Genesis 29:34Nave INSTANCES OF — Jacob, for Rachel
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
- Genesis 37:3Nave INSTANCES OF — Jacob, for Joseph
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
- Genesis 37:4Nave INSTANCES OF — Jacob, for Joseph
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
- Genesis 43:34Nave INSTANCES OF — Joseph, for Benjamin
And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.
- Deuteronomy 21:15–17Nave INSTANCES OF — Forbidden in parents
¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he…
- 1 Samuel 1:4Nave INSTANCES OF — Elkanah, for Hannah
¶ And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
- 1 Samuel 1:5Nave INSTANCES OF — Elkanah, for Hannah
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 9 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → INSTANCES OF
- Jacob, for Rachel Ge 29:30,34
- Elkanah, for Hannah 1Sa 1:4,5
- Rebekah, for Jacob Ge 27:6-17
- Jacob, for Joseph Ge 37:3,4
- Joseph, for Benjamin Ge 43:34
- Forbidden in parents De 21:15-17
- See PARTIALITY
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.