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³ 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.

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⁴ 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.

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⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

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²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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¹⁴ And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

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¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

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³⁰ And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

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⁵ Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

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³⁷ And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

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⁴ And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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⁵ But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.

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¹ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

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²¹ And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer. armourbearer.

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¹⁶ But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.

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²⁰ And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased pleased him.

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²⁸ And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

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¹⁷ And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

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¹ And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

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²⁴ And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.

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¹⁵ Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

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³ And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

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¹ But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

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²¹ And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: for he took eighteen eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.

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¹⁰ Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

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¹⁷ And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

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¹⁹ All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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⁸ LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

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⁴ He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

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⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

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¹⁷ As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

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⁴⁷ And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

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⁴⁸ My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

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⁴ Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

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¹⁴ All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

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² And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

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²⁵ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

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³ The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

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¹⁰ Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

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³⁷ Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

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¹ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. cornfloor.

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¹ When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

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¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

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² I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

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¹¹ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.