To Women

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased To be with Sarah after the manner of women.

And he made his camels To kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out To draw water.

• Superiors
• Manners

And she said To her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

• Pharaoh
• Homicide

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife To the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Then said his sister To Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call To thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

• Inhabitants
• Massacre

And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none To remain:

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe To do all the words of this law:

And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them To the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it To them, and gat them up To the top of the tower.

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born To Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

• Art
• Women

And it came To pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, To meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

• Brother

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love To me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

• Cakes
• Bread
• Meat

And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well To the women as men, To every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one To his house.

• Concubinage
• Friendship

And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, To keep the house.

And David came To his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left To keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

• Captive
• Menahem
• Homicide

Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not To him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

• Servant

And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil To Samaria.

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations To this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

• Solomon
• Backsliders
• Temptation

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause To sin.

• Food

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged To king Ahasuerus.

For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen To be brought in before him, but she came not.

• Lasciviousness

And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, To the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

So it came To pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, To the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, To the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

• Seven

And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged To her, and seven maidens, which were meet To be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, To know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

• Purification

Now when every maid's turn was come To go in To king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according To the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, To wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her To go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, To the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come To go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

• Mail

And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, To destroy, To kill, and To cause To perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and To take the spoil of them for a prey.

Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city To gather themselves together, and To stand for their life, To destroy, To slay, and To cause To perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and To take the spoil of them for a prey,

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways To that which destroyeth kings.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee To err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

• Seven

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, To take away our reproach.

• Kneaded
• Bread
• Libations

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, To make cakes To the queen of heaven, and To pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me To anger.

And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth To the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive To Babylon;

Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, To the men, and To the women, and To all the people which had given him that answer, saying,

Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and To all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:

The mighty men of Babylon have forborn To fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

Behold, O LORD, and consider To whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Then he brought me To the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

• Pillow

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe To the women that sew pillows To all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature To hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?

And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee To commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee To cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

Thus will I cause lewdness To cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not To do after your lewdness.

He shall also set his face To enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.

• Ravished
• Captive

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem To battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

And certain of them which were with us went To the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.

• Church
• Multitudes
• Faith

And believers were the more added To the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them To prison.

• Synagogue
• Way

And desired of him letters To Damascus To the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

• Sabbath

And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont To be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them To speak; but they are commanded To be under obedience, as also saith the law.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women To speak in the church.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion To the adversary To speak reproachfully.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given To much wine, teachers of good things;

• Character
• Sobriety

That they may teach the young women To be sober, To love their husbands, To love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient To their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

women received their dead raised To life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

• SAINTS
• Decision
• Lamb

These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and To the Lamb.