Women In The Bible
Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 1: IntroductionThere are many women named in the Bible. This in itself should be enough to make us take notice, because in the culture of those times women were rarely mentioned since it was their husbands who did whatever was needed to care…
Lesson 2: A life of sin
Lesson 2: A life of sin Hebrews 11:31 - By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.The Bible says Rahab was a prostitute. This was God’s view of her, and it was…
Lesson 3: Seeking an unknown God
Lesson 3: Seeking an unknown GodRead Joshua 1 and 2.Rahab’s life had been centered around a different god and a different worship all her life. We do not know when she began seeking the true God, but it was known throughout the land that the people…
Lesson 4: Treason to her old city
Lesson 4: Treason to her old cityRead Joshua 1 and 2Have you ever wondered what it means to step out in faith with Jesus?Rahab found the Israelite spies, and the Bible tells us in Joshua 2 they came to her home. When evening came, the king of Jerich…
Lesson 5: Faithful obedience without regard to consequences
Lesson 5: Faithful obedience without regard to consequencesRead Joshua 3 and 4Rahab chose to follow the instructions from the spies – things that probably did not make sense to her – over the things she could see. The armies of Jericho were surely…
Lesson 6: Saved from destruction
Lesson 6: Saved from destructionRead Joshua 5 and 6*When everything around you is being destroyed, how do you respond?Rahab must have been watching during each of the six days as the Israelite army marched silently around the city. She, and all the…
Lesson 7: A new way of life
Lesson 7: A new way of lifeRead Joshua 7 and 8When Rahab and her family left Jericho, they were taken to the Israelite camp. This chance to live, saved from destruction in Jericho, meant she had to give up everything she had ever known. Whatever her…
Lesson 8: A son to train
Lesson 8: A son to trainRead Joshua 9 and 10For many years after the people of Israel entered the Promised Land, they followed God in battle against the people who lived there, people who worshiped other gods and did what was evil in God’s eyes (Deu…
Lesson 9: A legacy forever
Lesson 9: A legacy foreverRead Joshua 24Rahab did not know, when she started seeking God and learning to trust Him, all the things He would ask of her. She did not know that one day her name would be written in the Bible in the list that we call gre…
Lesson 10: Strangers in town
Lesson 10: Strangers in townRead Ruth 1Ruth was a young lady from Moab. Moab, as a nation, came from a son of Lot (nephew of Abraham, see Genesis 13). One of the best-known stories about Moab involved a man named Balaam, a prophet of Moab, who bless…
Lesson 11: Marriage
Lesson 11: MarriageRead Ruth 1After Elimelech died, Naomi had only her two sons to help her, to provide for her. Ruth married Mahlon, the younger of Naomi’s sons, and came to live with Naomi.Marriage in Bible times always meant the woman went to liv…
Lesson 12: Series of deaths
Lesson 12: Series of deathsRead Ruth 2Ruth could not have been married to Mahlon very long before he died. We are not told which of Naomi’s sons died first, or if perhaps they died together. But Naomi and her two daughters-in-law were left without…
Lesson 13: A mother’s choice
Lesson 13: A mother’s choiceRead Ruth 2One day Naomi told Ruth and Orpah that she was returning to her own homeland. She was leaving the house where the three of them had gotten to know each other, and she told Ruth and Orpah to return to their pare…
Lesson 14: A daughter’s choice
Lesson 14: A daughter’s choiceRead Ruth 3Both Ruth and Orpah began the journey back to Israel with Naomi. Since people of that day walked everywhere they went, the three women were walking – a distance of about 30-40 miles (about 50-65 km). Along th…
Lesson 15: A new way of life
Lesson 15: A new way of lifeRead Ruth 3As Ruth began her new life in Bethlehem with Naomi, she was the one who needed to go find food for the two of them. One of God’s provisions for the poor in this nation was that farmers were not to harvest their…
Lesson 16: A loving family
Lesson 16: A loving familyRead Ruth 4When harvesting was done, Ruth had gathered far more grain than could normally have been expected. Naomi understood that Boaz had given this extra grain to Ruth because he knew who she was and cared about Naomi…
Lesson 17: Kinsman-Redeemer
Lesson 17: Kinsman-RedeemerRead Ruth 4In our previous lesson we read the title of Kinsman-Redeemer. This was a title God designed for His people to paint a picture of Jesus.A kinsman-redeemer was a close relative, a man who could rescue or protect a…
Lesson 18: A queen’s disobedience
Lesson 18: A queen’s disobedienceRead Esther 1In the country of Persia, where many of the people of Israel had been taken into captivity many years earlier, a queen decided to disobey her husband, the king. He had demanded she attend a banquet which…
Lesson 19: A beauty contest
Lesson 19: A beauty contestRead Esther 2The king’s advisors and officials demanded that he not allow the queen to remain in her position since then all the women of the country would think they could disobey their husbands as Queen Vashti had done.…
Lesson 20: The winner’s reward
Lesson 20: The winner’s rewardRead Esther 3Esther and all the other young women who had been brought to the palace prepared themselves to be judged by the king. This meant they were given the best foods and many other things they might not have had…
Lesson 21: A secret overheard
Lesson 21: A secret overheardRead Esther 4One day Mordecai, Esther’s uncle who had become like a father to her, was sitting at the gate of the palace and overheard a plot to assassinate the king. Mordecai sent a message to Esther so she could warn…
Lesson 22: An impossible request
Lesson 22: An impossible requestRead Esther 5When Esther received the information from Mordecai that the plans had been set into action to have Jews killed all throughout the country, she was afraid! She had not told anyone about her Jewish heritage…
Lesson 23: Prayer for the Queen
Lesson 23: Prayer for the QueenRead Esther 6For three days and nights the Jewish people in the capital city prayed for Queen Esther. None of these prayers are recorded for us, but we can be sure the people were praying for her to know the right thin…
Lesson 24: The Queen’s choice
Lesson 24: The Queen’s choiceRead Esther 7Queen Esther had a hard decision to make. Her fear may truly have been that if she chose to enter the king’s presence and he rejected her, her mission to save her people from death would have failed. If she…
Lesson 25: An invitation to lunch
Lesson 25: An invitation to lunchRead Esther 8Queen Esther’s request of the king was not what most people would have chosen to make. Since she had the king’s permission to ask, and a promise that he would grant her wish up to half of his kingdom, mo…
Lesson 26: A legacy forever
Lesson 26: A legacy foreverRead Esther 9 and 10Queen Esther told the king how she and her people had been sentenced to die. The king had left the room in anger to try to find a way to defeat his own law. Haman, in desperation, came to Esther to beg…
For Such a Time as This
For Such a Time as This CHARACTER COUNT Lesson 1: Introduction 1,986Lesson 2: A life of sin 2,969Lesson 3: Seeking an unknown God …