Women of Note in the Old Testament
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he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted
off the camel. For she had said unto the servant, What man is that that
walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my
master: therefore she took a veil, and covered herself. And the servant
told Isaac all things that he had done.”—
Patriarchs and Prophets, 173
(1890)
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Isaac was highly honored by God in being made inheritor of the
promises through which the world was to be blessed; yet when he was
forty years of age he submitted to his father’s judgment in appointing
his experienced, God-fearing servant to choose a wife for him. And
the result of that marriage, as presented in the Scriptures, is a tender
and beautiful picture of domestic happiness:” Isaac brought her into
his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife;
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and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.”—
Patriarchs and Prophets, 175 (1890)
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Jochebed, Mother of Moses
This chapter is based on
Exodus 2
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The [Egyptian] king and his counselors had hoped to subdue the
Israelites with hard labor, and thus decrease their numbers and crush
out their independent spirit. Failing to accomplish their purpose, they
proceeded to more cruel measures. Orders were issued to the women
whose employment gave them opportunity for executing the command,
to destroy the Hebrew male children at their birth. Satan was the mover
in this matter. He knew that a deliverer was to be raised up among the
Israelites; and by leading the king to destroy their children he hoped
to defeat the divine purpose. But the women feared God, and dared
not execute the cruel mandate. The Lord approved their course, and
prospered them. The king, angry at the failure of his design, made the
command more urgent and extensive. The whole nation was called
upon to hunt out and slaughter his helpless victims. “And Pharaoh
charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into
the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.”
While this decree was in full force a son was born to Amram
and Jochebed, devout Israelites of the tribe of Levi. The babe was