Genesis 49:4 Cross References
Genesis 49:4
4: But you are as unruly as the waves of the sea, and you will be first no longer. For you slept with one of my wives; you dishonored me in my own bed.
Genesis 35:22
- While he was there, Reuben slept with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and someone told Jacob about it. These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:
Deuteronomy 27:20
- `Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with his father's wife, for he has violated his father.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
1 Chronicles 5:1
- The oldest son of Israel was Reuben. But since he dishonored his father by sleeping with one of his father's concubines, his birthright was given to the sons of his brother Joseph. For this reason, Reuben is not listed in the genealogy as the firstborn son.
Deuteronomy 33:6
- Moses said this about the tribe of Reuben: "Let the tribe of Reuben live and not die out, even though their tribe is small."
1 Corinthians 5:1
- I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you, something so evil that even the pagans don't do it. I am told that you have a man in your church who is living in sin with his father's wife.
Numbers 32:1
- Now the tribes of Reuben and Gad owned vast numbers of livestock. So when they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideally suited for their flocks and herds,
- they came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the other leaders of the people. They said,
- "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon--
- the LORD has conquered this whole area for the people of Israel. It is ideally suited for all our flocks and herds.
- If we have found favor with you, please let us have this land as our property instead of giving us land across the Jordan River."
Deuteronomy 5:21
- " `Do not covet your neighbor's wife. Do not covet your neighbor's house or land, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else your neighbor owns.'
James 1:6
- But when you ask him, be sure that you really expect him to answer, for a doubtful mind is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
- People like that should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
- They can't make up their minds. They waver back and forth in everything they do.
Genesis 46:8
- These are the names of the Israelites, the descendants of Jacob, who went with him to Egypt: Reuben was Jacob's oldest son.
2 Peter 3:16
- speaking of these things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters around to mean something quite different from what he meant, just as they do the other parts of Scripture--and the result is disaster for them.
2 Peter 2:14
- They commit adultery with their eyes, and their lust is never satisfied. They make a game of luring unstable people into sin. They train themselves to be greedy; they are doomed and cursed.