Bible Verses About Love: Old Testament Tanakh Scriptures
1. Genesis 29:20 - "So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her."
2. Genesis 24:67 - "Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death."
3. Genesis 29:30 - "Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years."
4. Genesis 34:3 - "His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her."
5. Exodus 20:6 - "but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."
6. Deuteronomy 7:9 - "Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments."
7. Deuteronomy 7:13 - "He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you."
8. Deuteronomy 10:15 - "Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today."
9. Deuteronomy 23:5 - "However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you."
10. Deuteronomy 30:16 - "For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess."
11. Deuteronomy 33:3 - "Surely it is you who love the people; all the holy ones are in your hand. At your feet they all bow down, and from you receive instruction,"
12. Joshua 22:5 - "But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
13. 1 Samuel 18:1 - "After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself."
14. 1 Samuel 18:20 - "Now Saul’s daughter Michal was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased."
15. 2 Samuel 1:26 - "I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women."
16. 2 Samuel 12:24 - "Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and made love to her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The Lord loved him;"
17. 2 Samuel 13:15 - "Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred. In fact, he hated her more than he had loved her. Amnon said to her, 'Get up and get out!'"
18. 2 Samuel 13:39 - "King David longed to go to Absalom, for he was consoled concerning Amnon’s death."
19. 2 Samuel 14:1 - "Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart longed for Absalom."
20. 2 Samuel 19:6 - "You love those who hate you and hate those who love you. You have made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today and all of us were dead."
21. 1 Kings 3:3 - "Solomon showed his love for the Lord by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places."
22. 1 Kings 10:9 - "Praise be to the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to maintain justice and righteousness."
23. 1 Kings 11:2 - "They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, 'You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.' Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love."
24. 1 Kings 11:4 - "As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been."
25. 2 Kings 13:23 - "But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from his presence."
26. 2 Kings 14:25 - "He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher."
27. 2 Kings 20:3 - "Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.' And Hezekiah wept bitterly."
28. 2 Kings 20:6 - "I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.'"
29. 2 Kings 21:8 - "I will not again make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them.'"
30. 2 Kings 23:25 - "Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the Lord as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses."
31. 1 Chronicles 16:34 - "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever."
32. 1 Chronicles 17:17 - "And as if this were not enough in your sight, my God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You, Lord, have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men."
33. 1 Chronicles 28:8 - "So now I charge you in the sight of all Israel and of the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God: Be careful to follow all the commands of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land and pass it on as an inheritance to your descendants forever."
34. 2 Chronicles 2:11 - "Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon: 'Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king.'"
35. 2 Chronicles 6:14 - "He said: 'Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.'"
36. 2 Chronicles 9:8 - "Praise be to the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the Lord your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness."
37. 2 Chronicles 9:26 - "He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt."
38. 2 Chronicles 19:2 - "Jehu the seer, the son of Hanani, went out to meet him and said to the king, 'Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the wrath of the Lord is on you.'"
39. 2 Chronicles 20:21 - "After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: 'Give thanks to the Lord, for his love endures forever.'"
40. 2 Chronicles 32:25 - "But Hezekiah’s heart was proud and he did not respond to the kindness shown him; therefore the Lord’s wrath was on him and on Judah and Jerusalem."
41. Nehemiah 1:5 - "Then I said: 'Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments,"
42. Nehemiah 9:17 - "They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,"
43. Esther 2:17 - "Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti."
44. Job 10:12 - "You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit."
45. Job 34:19 - "who shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?"