{"id":2770,"date":"2016-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/you-shall-not-take-a-wife-for-my-son-from-the-daughters-of-the-canaanites-in-whose-land-i-dwell-but-you-shall-go-to-my-fathers-house-and-to-my-clan-and-take-a-wife-for-my-son-genesis-24\/"},"modified":"2016-01-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T00:00:00","slug":"you-shall-not-take-a-wife-for-my-son-from-the-daughters-of-the-canaanites-in-whose-land-i-dwell-but-you-shall-go-to-my-fathers-house-and-to-my-clan-and-take-a-wife-for-my-son-genesis-24","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/you-shall-not-take-a-wife-for-my-son-from-the-daughters-of-the-canaanites-in-whose-land-i-dwell-but-you-shall-go-to-my-fathers-house-and-to-my-clan-and-take-a-wife-for-my-son-genesis-24","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell, but you shall go to my father&#8217;s house and to my clan and take a wife for my son&#8221; (Genesis 24:37-38 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham instructed his servant to get a wife for his son Isaac from his &#8220;father&#8217;s house,&#8221; not from the Canaanites which surrounded them. Abraham wanted to make sure that his son&#8217;s spouse believed as they did, not only for marital compatibility, but also for the future upbringing of their children. We have to be careful in drawing an application from a narrative passage, but there does seem to be one here. Believers should choose to marry other believers who belong to the &#8220;Father&#8217;s house,&#8221; and not choose a spouse from this world. Another application might be that we should let the Father help in selecting our future mate. These are practical applications. We might also see a spiritual foreshadowing in this beautiful story of God the Father, sending His Spirit to bring the bride, which is the church, to His awaiting Son, Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham instructed his servant to get a wife for his son Isaac from his &#8220;father&#8217;s house,&#8221; not from the Canaanites which surrounded them. Abraham wanted to make sure that his son&#8217;s spouse believed as they did, not only for marital compatibility, but also for the future upbringing of their children. We have to be careful in drawing an application from a narrative passage, but there does seem to be one here. Believers should choose to marry other believers who belong to the &#8220;Father&#8217;s house,&#8221; and not choose a spouse from this world. Another application might be that we should let the Father help in selecting our future mate. These are practical applications. We might also see a spiritual foreshadowing in this beautiful story of God the Father, sending His Spirit to bring the bride, which is the church, to His awaiting Son, Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1268],"scripture-chapter":[1357],"oyb_day":[1536],"location":[],"class_list":["post-2770","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-genesis","scripture-chapter-1357","oyb_day-january-10"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}