The Bible In Paintings >>> Women in the Bible Series ✝️ SUPPORTIVE MOTHERS — Bathsheba, The Prophet’s Widow, The Shunammite, Mrs. Zebedee ✝️

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		BATHSHEBA, SOLOMON’S MOTHER

1 KINGS 1: Bathsheba went to see the aged king in his room. Bathsheba bowed low and knelt before the king. “What is it you want?” the king asked.

She said to him, “My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the LORD your God: ‘Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.’ But now Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, do not know about it. My lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to learn from you who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. Otherwise, as soon as my lord the king is laid to rest with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be treated as criminals.”

The king then took an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble, I will surely carry out today what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”

Then Bathsheba bowed low with her face to the ground and, kneeling before the king, said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

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GERBRAND VAN DEN EECKHOUT
"David Promises Bathsheba that Solomon Will Be His Successor"

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GOVERT FLINCK
"Bathsheba Makes an Appeal to David"

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"Abishag at the Bed of David,
with Bathsheba, Solomon, and Nathan"

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JAN VAN NOORDT
"Bathsheba Makes an Appeal to King David"

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AERT DE GELDER
"Bathseba and David"

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"Bathsheba Pleads for Solomon"

		THE IMPOVERISHED WIDOW, MOTHER OF TWO SONS

2 KINGS 4:
The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”

“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a little oil.”

Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”

She left him and afterward shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”

But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

She went and told the man of God, and he said “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

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NICOLAS FONTAINE
"Elisha Multiplies the Widow's Oil"

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OTTO ELLIGER
"Elisha Multiplies the Widow's Oil"

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MICHOEL MUCHNIK
"Elisha's Blessing"

		THE SHUNAMMITE, A DEAD BOY’S MOTHER

2 KINGS 4:
“About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.”

“No, my lord,” she objected. “Don’t mislead your servant, O man of God!”

But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. “My head! My head!” he said to his father.

His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

The boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

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"The Shunammite Woman"

She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return.”

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REMBRANDT
"The Departure of the Shunammite Woman"

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"The Shunammite Woman"

When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. “Did I ask you for a son, my lord?” she said. “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t raise my hopes’?”

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C.F. VOS
"Elisha and the Shunammite Woman"

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CLAES CORNELISZ. MOEYAERT
"Elisha and the Shunammite Woman"

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"The Shunammite Woman at the Feet of Elisha"

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WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"Elisha and the Shunammite Woman"

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"Elisha and the Shunammite Woman"

When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the LORD. Then he got on the bed and lay upon the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out upon him, the boy’s body grew warm. Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out upon him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

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FREDERICK LEIGHTON
"Elisha Healing the Son of the Shunamite Woman"

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"Elisha Prays for Shunammite Woman's Son"

Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” When she came, he said, “Take your son.” She came in, fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out.

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LOUIS HERSENT
"The Shunammite Woman Who Believed"

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BENJAMIN WEST
"Elisha Raises Son of the Woman of Shunem"

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JAN SLUYTERS
"Elisha and the Son of the Shunammite Woman"

		MRS. ZEBEDEE, MOTHER OF JAMES AND JOHN

MATTHEW 20:
Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.

“What is it you want?” he asked.

She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”

“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”

“We can,” they answered.

Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.”

When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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[etabeta]

Wish I had all the pottery in the watercolor by Mulchnik, #13.
Beautiful stained glass windows!
#20 Hole, very beautiful. He depicts the landscape so well.
#27 West.
Thank you, Dan.

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and happy family holiday to all.

We marvel how God’s Word exposes the heart of man, which we all share. Excellent paintings, and helpful lessons.

Greatly appreciate your labors of love, that create this teaching ministry Dan.

[No name given]

Bee Eee A utiful.

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Mulchnik’s is my favorite: just lovely.

I would have included you, Alba, as one of the supportive mothers, but I couldn’t find enough art. Should have asked Elisha, I suppose, and it would have poured out.

[nomorelurker]

Some Old Testament “themes” to be repeated later in the New, was interesting.

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the heart of man, which we all share

If you were a mother, Leon, undoubtedly you would be very supportive.

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Creative spelling. But your meaning is clear.

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Mothers have been supportive since Eve. It’s what they do.

[Big Red Badger]

The New Testament in the
Old concealed.
The Old Testament in the
New Revealed.
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Spell checked okay.

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Thank you, Ken.

Here is a Bible summary I heard:

Old Testament: Jesus is coming!
Four Gospels: Jesus is here!
New Testament: Jesus is coming back!

[etabeta]

You said it! Supportive till my last breath.

[Big Red Badger]

Hey Dan ...
That’s them Boys at Duck Dynasty!
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Just Working it On Labor Day since
Being retired is Brutal my FRiend !
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Those ‘Sons of Thunder’ bickering again sure makes you wonder What God sees’ in US

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them Boys at Duck Dynasty!

Jase Robertson, in this instance.

makes you wonder What God sees’ in US

My take: Those who allow God to save them are granting Him permission thereby to remake them into His vision for us.

[SisterK]

#22 is very powerful

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I cannot imagine the awful weight Elisha must have felt in having to confront that corpse, but #22 evokes in me a sense of it.

[Ezekiel]

"Roshi! Roshi!" [רֹאשִׁי רֹאשִׁי]

The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. "My head! My head!" he said to his father.

(Two heads are better than one.)

In Jewish tradition, the prophet Habakkuk is identified with this son of the [great] Shunamite woman. The concept is based on the similarity of his name to verb "embrace":

16. And he said, About this season, in the coming year, you shall embrace [חֹבֶקֶת] a son; And she said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your maidservant:

Of course to the ear, this all makes simple sense, just like the famous slogan:

Habakkuk and a smile. Ko'ach adds life.

Meanwhile, in the place named for being the origin of the Sun (as viewed from China):

Rōshi (老師) (Japanese: "old teacher"; "old master"; Chinese pinyin: Lǎoshī) is an honorific title used for a highly venerated senior teacher in Zen Buddhism.

The Japanese rōshi is a translation of the more antiquated Chinese Laozi (Wade-Giles; Lao Tzu) meaning 'Old Master' and connoting the archetype of a wise old man.

https://encyclopediaofbuddhism.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dshi

And over here:

The Torah is light, as is written, "And Torah is light."[1] The sages explain that the concealed light of the Torah is not the same light, but rather, an additional, double light -- in addition to the light of the Torah itself.

The Ba’al Shem Tov: From One End of the World to the Other

Footnote 1 begins:

1. The soul of Mashiach has two dimensions. One is the enlightenment that all of creation will enjoy; and one is that there will be an individual (or a couple) that will master mind and master heart this giant planetary-scale project of coordinating all of humanity into a single, smoothly operating organism, that will run as efficiently as a person's body.

https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/1893861/jewish/Glass-Half-Empty-Consciousness-of-Tisha-bAv.htm

My head! My head!

Ever experience a burning forehead? It could even spread to the temples. This fire occurred 8-9 Aug, but it's dated here as "Tisha B'Aug"..

On August 9, 2023, a wildfire destroyed approximately 80% of Lahaina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahaina,_Hawaii

 

What's Maui (the "trickster" demigod of Hawaiian lore) looking over, the "Target Isle"?

 

"Sages who were engaging in discussions about the coming of the Messiah..."

Not to wander off-topic, but in the Jewish writings concerning the arrival of the Messiah, three things come unexpectedly (when the mind is distracted, diverted):

The Messiah, a metzia (a find or bargain), and a scorpion. (Sanhedrin 97a)

In Hawaii, Scorpius is known as the demigod Maui's Fishhook [15] or Ka Makau Nui o Māui (meaning the Big Fishhook of Māui) and the name of the fishhook was Manaiakalani.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpius#Culture

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Elisha learned a hard lesson: the distributor of God’s blessings is identified with them by the recipients. Followup is required. This is God’s lot, one He anticipated before He began creating.

[Red Badger]

John is almost always portrayed as a very young man. He must have been the youngest of all the apostles............