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Old Testament
Faithful Women of the Bible
Genesis: Eve
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Genesis 1:27, So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 2:21, And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
Genesis 2:22, And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto man.
Genesis 2:23, And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Genesis 2:24, Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 3:15, And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall brusie thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 3:20, And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis: Dust of the Ground
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Genesis 2:7, And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 5:3, And Adam lived hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.
Duly Noted: The City of Adam, Adam is a city mentioned in the Old Testament, specifically in the context of the miraculous crossing of the Jordan River by the Israelite’s under the leadership of Joshua. The city is referenced in Joshus 3:1, which states, “The waters flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a heap very far away at Adam, the city beside Zarethan.” This event is a significant moment in Israelite history, marking their entry into the Promised Land.
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Genesis: Sarah
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Genesis 12:1, Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I shall shew thee:
Genesis 12:2, And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing;
Genesis 12: 3, And I will bless them that bless thee (Abram), and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 11:29, And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's was Sarai, and the name of Nahor wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Genesis 15:7, And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis: A Great Nation
Genesis 17:8, And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land therein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan. for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Hebrews 11:11, Through faith also, Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was passed age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Duly Noted: The ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur is known for its royal tombs and practice of human sacrifice, particularly the “Great Death Pit” where retainers were sacrificed to accompany the deceased elite in the afterlife. These practices, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE, involved the elaborate burial of royal figures alongside numerous attendants, often adorned with jewelry and ceremonial gear. The retainers, who may or may not have willingly participated, were believed to be accompanying their rulers to the next world.
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Joshua: Rahab
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Joshua 6:23, And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had: and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
Matthew 1:5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz began Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse;
Matthew 1:6, And Jesse began David the king; and David the king began Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urisa.
Exodus 22:21, Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Joshua: Jericho
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Joshua 5:13, 14, And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
Joshua 5:14, And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant
Duly Noted: Children Sacrificed in Jericho, The practiced of child-sacifice on the site of Jericho Jn the Bronze age was revealed by inspection of the latest excavations made here under direction of the British archeologist, Prof Walter Garstang. Tragic aspects of ancient life within the walled city before the Israelite conquest were revealed during excavation of the bones of children killed sacrificially in the years prior to Joshus’s successful assault on the city.
source: The Cambridge Public Library, The Cambridge Sentienel, Volume XXII, Number 108, 29 March 1930
Matthew: Rachab
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Matthew 1:17, So all generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
Duly Noted: Jericho is among the oldest cities in the world, and it is also the city with the oldest known defensive wall. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first of which dates back 11:000 years (to 9000 Bce), almost to the very beginning of Holocene epoch of earth’s history. Copious springs in and around the city have attracted human habitation for thousands of years. Jericho is described in the Bible as the city of palm trees.
Jericho is located 258 meters (846 ft) below sea level in an oasis in Wadi Qelt in the Jordan Valley, which makes it the lowest city in the world.
source: wikipedia.org
Jericho’s name is Biblical Hebrew, is generally thought to derive from the Canaanite word ‘fragrant,’ but other theories hold that it originate in the Canaanite word ‘moon’ or the name of the lunar deity Yarikh, for whom the city was an early center of worship.
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OLD TESRAMENT
Faithful Women of the Bible
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God
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Revelation 2:7
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit say unto the churches; to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Genesis 2:1,
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; thou shalt not eat of this: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
My Words Shall Not Pass Away
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Matthew 24:35, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
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2nd Peter 3:3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.
Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low.
Old Testament
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Ruth: Ruth
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Ruth 1:16, And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
Ruth 1:22, So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of the barley harvest.
Leviticus 19:34, But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Duly Noted: Who was Chemosh in the Bible? Chemosh was an ancient god worshipped by the Moabites, whose name possibly means “destroyer” or “fish-god.” Chemosh is associated with the goddess Ashtaraoth. Worship of Chemosh included child sacrifice, an abomination as it is written Leviticus 18:21, And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Holy Scriptures: Leviticus 18:26, Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojurneth with you.
sources: Holy Scriptures, King James Bible, Compellingtruth.org
Ruth: Bethlehem
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Ruth 1:19, So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
Matthew 1:5, And Solman begat Booz of Rachab, and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse.
Ancient Israel
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Duly Noted: In the time of King David, Bethlehem was his birthplace and hometown, a small farming village with a rich family history. It was also the place where his ancestor Ruth met and married Boaz, and where David himself tended sheep before becoming king. Bethlehem’s significance as David’s city is further highlighted by the prophecy that the messiah would be a descendant of David, born in Bethlehem.
Holy Scriptures: Isaiah 53:1-12, Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his strips we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great., and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bear the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Micah 5:2,But thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
sources: Holy Scriptures, King James Bible & AI Overview, google.com
Judges: Deborah
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Judges 4:1,2,3, And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor, the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Judges 4:4, And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judge Israel at the time.
Judges 4:9, And she said, I will surely go with thee, notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kesesh.
Judges: Ramah & Bethel in mount Ephraim
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Judges 4:14, And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Duly Noted: Canaanite religion involved various forms of sacrifice, including animal sacrifices and potentially human sacrifice, particularly of children. These practices were often linked to specific deities and rituals performed at shrines and sacred groves.
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Old Testament
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Temple of God
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Psalms 27:4, One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
2nd Chronicles 6:18, But will God in very deed dwell with men on earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
Acts 17:24, God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
Duly Noted: Understanding Biblical Sacrifice, A group of people called the kohanim (“priests”) were the only ones who were allowed to make sacrifices to bring people close to God. The first kohen was Aaron, and his sons became kohanim after him. The kohanim would make sacrifices for themselves, for other individual Jews, or for the entire Jewish people. There were three basic kinds of korbanot: Animals, grain, and money. Animals would be killed, grain would be burned, and money would be donated. Sometimes, when a person didn’t have any animals to sacrifice, they would offer grain or money instead (see for example Leviticus 5:18, and 14:21.)
source: myjewishlearning.com, Today, we know that there are many other ways we can draw close to God that don’t involve killing animals. In Particular, Judasism teaches that prayer is a replacement for animal sacrifices.
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Matthew 5:17, Think not that I come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfil.
Matthew 10:28, And fear not the which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
1st Corinthians 3:16, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Matthew 12:6, But I say unto you, that in this place is one greater then the temple.
Behold The LION
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Revelation 5:5, And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the sveven seals thereof.
Genesis 49:10, The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto his shall the gathering of the people be.
Hebrews 1:8, But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
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Holy Scriptures, King James Bible
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Author’s Side-Note: Blog Titled “The Faithful Women of the Bible, Old Testament” Posted Date 9 / 16 / 2023