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The Bible In Paintings >>> “Women in the Bible” Series ✝️ SUPPORTIVE WIVES — Mrs. Noah, Rachel and Leah, Zipporah, Wives for the Benjamites ✝️

Posted on 09/01/2023 6:30:30 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6










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WOMEN IN THE BIBLE
SUPPORTIVE WIVES




NOAH’S WIFE:
“ON-BOARD”

GENESIS 6:
Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch Inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.”




1
HE QI
"Ark of Noah"




2
CHARLES FOSTER
"Noah Sent Out this Dove"




3
ROBERT AMBROSE DUDLEY
"Noah and the Dove"




4
JOAQUIM RAMIREZ
"Interior of Noah's Ark"




5
PHIL ROBINSON
"Noah and the Dove"




6
DANIEL SARRABAT
"Noah Giving Thanks to God for Escaping the Flood"




7
MICHELANGELO
"Sacrifice of Noah"




8
FRANCESCO CASTIGLIONE
"Noah's Offering"




9
ANTONIO DE BELLIS
"The Sacrifice of Noah"




10
JACOPO AMIGONI
"Thanksgiving of Noah"




11
JAMES TISSOT
"Noah's Sacrifice"




12
"The Sacrifice of Noah"




13
JUAN ANTONIO DE FRÍAS Y ESCALANTE
"Noé y Su Familia después del Diluvio"



RACHEL and LEAH

GENESIS 31:
The LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah. He said to them, “I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.

“The angel of God said to me, “I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’ ”

Then Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father’s estate? Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us. Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.




14
LOUIS GAUFFIER
"Jacob Coming to Find the Daughters of Laban"




15
PIETER POTTER
"Jacob Persuades Leah and Rachel to Flee"




16
CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE
"Jacob and Rachel Leaving the House of Laban"




17
FILIPPO LAURI
"Jacob Fleeing from Laban"




18
CORNELISZ BUYS
"The Exodus of Jacob"



ZIPPORAH

EXODUS 4:
Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.” So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

The LORD said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son, and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’ ”

At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)




19
BOTTICELLI
"Zipporah"




20
CORNELIS HOLSTEYN
"Zipporah"




21
JAN BAPTIST WEENIX
"The Circumcision of the Son of Moses"




22
PIETRO PERUGINO
"Journey of Moses and Circumcision of His Second Son"




23
JACOB JORDAENS
"Moses and His Ethiopian Wife Sephora"



WIVES FOR THE
BENJAMITES

JUDGES 19-21:
BACKGROUND: An Israelite’s concubine was gang-raped and murdered by Benjamites. So he cut her corpse into twelve parts and sent them to Israel’s tribes. Israel was so enraged that they killed every person in Benjamin, except 600 soldiers who fled. And they vowed not to give their daughters to those Benjamites. So the tribe of Benjamin faced extinction.

The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a gap in the tribes of Israel. And the elders of the assembly said, “With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left? The Benjamite survivors must have heirs,” they said, “so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out. We can’t give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath: ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite.’ But look, there is the annual festival of the LORD in Shiloh.”

So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, “Go and hide in the vineyards and watch. When the girls of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, then rush from the vineyards and each of you seize a wife from the girls of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin. When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Do us a kindness by helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war, and you are innocent, since you did not give your daughters to them.’ ”

So that is what the Benjamites did. While the girls were dancing, each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and settled in them.




24
JAMES TISSOT
"Les Benjamites Guettent les Danseuses"




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"Benjamites Seize Wives from Shiloh"




New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added
Masthead Painting: “GUEST” by Andrey Mironov





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1 posted on 09/01/2023 6:30:30 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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2 posted on 09/01/2023 6:31:36 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

WIVES FOR THE BENJAMITES.......

Parallels very closely with the Roman story of the Rape (Archaic Latin: Abduction) of the Sabine Women.....


3 posted on 09/01/2023 6:41:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

What strikes me is the savage total vengeance wreaked by the eleven tribes on Benjamin, slaughtering tens of thousands of men, women and children for one murder.


4 posted on 09/01/2023 6:51:52 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Good Morning Dan, and glad September to all.

Well organized, and great paintings as well. Many outstanding works.

Thank you Dan.


5 posted on 09/01/2023 6:55:05 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: InkStone

Grab a wife, Leon, any wife.


6 posted on 09/01/2023 6:57:37 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6; etabeta

Dan, etabeta or anyone else:

#26 shows such skill; anyone know the artist?

Thank You In Advance =:^)


7 posted on 09/01/2023 6:58:22 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

ummm, uh...


8 posted on 09/01/2023 6:58:53 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Remarkable works.
#18 by the 16th c. Dutch Old Master Buys - So many great details
# 19 Raphael. Part of the of Botticelli’s fresco of The Temptation of Moses in the Sistine Chapel.
Thank you for the lovely fenster, Dan.


9 posted on 09/01/2023 7:03:14 AM PDT by etabeta
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To: InkStone
Gustav Doré. Not only is it instantly recognizable as his, but also he signed it "G Doré" on the lower left, as was his custom.
10 posted on 09/01/2023 7:04:54 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: etabeta

A fenster a day keeps Alba at play!


11 posted on 09/01/2023 7:06:34 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: InkStone; Hebrews 11:6

I believe this is by Gustave Doré.


12 posted on 09/01/2023 7:07:28 AM PDT by etabeta
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Just gorgeous.


13 posted on 09/01/2023 7:09:32 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: No name given

Wives are free for the taking.


14 posted on 09/01/2023 7:11:07 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6; etabeta

Thank You Dan, and Thank You etabeta, for identifying the beautiful #26 Dore.


15 posted on 09/01/2023 7:18:04 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: InkStone

You are very welcome, InkStone.


16 posted on 09/01/2023 9:11:50 AM PDT by etabeta
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To: InkStone

Sorry I left you wondering, Leon. I just got lazy.


17 posted on 09/01/2023 9:15:32 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

“I just got lazy.”
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

It’s OK: I got beat with a ‘Lazy Stick’ today =:^)


18 posted on 09/01/2023 10:21:29 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

that whole chapter is bloody and violent


19 posted on 09/01/2023 6:52:19 PM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: SisterK

Blood-lust.


20 posted on 09/01/2023 7:47:37 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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