Women of the Holy Bible: Les Femmes De La Sainte Bible

By Marie-Clemence Ulcena

In this book, we encompass, in alphabetical order, a list of women with different personalities. Some of these women are strong, faithful, devout and full of love; others are wicked, treacherous, deceitful and spiteful.



Among all the women presented to you in this book, there are despicable tales filled with depravity and despondency. But they are also beautiful stories of hope, merits and spiritual transformation.




The reader may find one of these described women and follow her aspiration while wondering about the spiteful and wicked path of the other.




As you read, draw from the lives of these women. You can condemn and reject the actions of some, while the examples of others can inspire you, light your path and guide your steps.





Marie-Clemence Ulcena

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479752362

Marie-Clemence Ulcena

Marie-Clemence Ulcena was born September 1, 1956, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti where she attended primary and secondary school. She is a mother and a grandmother of 4 beautiful children and 10 grand-children. In 1980, she emigrated to the United State to be reunited with her husband. Shortly after, she enrolled in ESL program at Prospect Park High school, obtained her GED and went to Borough of Manhattan community college (BMCC). In her English class, she wrote a poem about Haiti that was published in the school newspaper as the best poem of the year. She graduated from BMCC with an associate degree and enrolled at Stony Brook University where she obtained her Bachelor degree in science, two years later a Master’s degree in science and graduated Cum Laude. As a devoted Christian she served as a deaconess for 20 years at Pentecostal Church of Fisher of Men. In 2009, she enrolled at the French Bible Institute (bibledoc) and graduated in 2011. During the same year Marie-Clemence was accepted into Star Vision Ministry program; she completed the program in a year and was ordained minister. She was recently ordained as a minister at her church, where she is serving as assistant pastor. As director of Sunday’s School, she has already published “La Foi” (Faith); a book widely acclaimed by many churches in the Haitian community. Marie-Clemence loves to travel, she has already visited: France, Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Panama, Portugal, Spain, Mexico and almost all the Caribbean islands.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Abigail

Abishag

Anna

Bathsheba

Deborah

Dorcas or Tabitha

Elizabeth

Esther

Eunice

Eve

Evodia

Hannah

Huldah

Jael

Jephthah’s daughter

Joanna

Lydia

1-Mary

2-Mary

3-Mary

4-Mary

5-Mary

6-Mary

Martha

Michal

Miriam

Naomi

Persis

Phoebe

Puah

Rachel

Rahab

Rhoda

Rizpah

Ruth

Salome

Sarah

Susanna

Syntyche

Tamar

Vashti

Woman Crippled For Eighteen Years

Women Dancing And Singing

Woman Of Samaria

Woman Who Committed Adultery

Woman Who Praised Jesus’ Mother

Woman With Constant Bleeding

Athaliah

Berenice

Bilhah

Cozbi

Delilah

Drusilla

Gomer

Hagar

Herodias

Jezebel

Maacah

Peninnah

Rebekah

Salome

Sapphira

Women

Zeresh

Abigail

Abihail

Abital

Acsah

Adah

Ahinoam

Anah

Azubah

Basemath

Bath-Schua

Bithiah

Chloe

Claudia

Damaris

Deborah

Dinah

Eglah

Elisheba

Ephah

Haggith

Hamutal

Helah

Jemimah

Jerusha

Keren-Happuch

Ketsia

Keturah

Leah

Lois

Maacah

Merab

Meshullemeth

Milcah

Naamah

Nehushta

Oholibamah

Orpah

Priscilla

Reumah

Shelomith

Tamar

Taphath

Tryphaena

Tryphosa

Women who served at the entrance of the Tabernacle

Zilpah

Get to know the Women of the Bible:

Creative Eve?

Astute Bathsheba?

Merciless Jezebel?

Tamar, who would do anything to get what was hers

Learn about Their stories of

Love and hate,

Mistakes and mercy,

Fear and faith.

PREFACE

T HE LIVES OF some of the Holy Bible’s women are very fascinating. A simple idea of their behaviors may profoundly arouse curiosity. Most of these women have found permanent places in the thoughts of most religious and non-religious people of the world. It is not easy to encounter someone who is not familiar with Eve, the first woman on earth; Delilah, Samson’s concubine; Bathsheba, whom King David had her husband killed so he could have her as his wife and Mary the mother of Jesus, the Son of God.

The Holy Bible contains many women with many positive virtues that can be praised. Deborah’s strength of character helped her to deliver her people from oppression. Ruth showed great loyalty to her destitute mother-in-law. Naomi and the duo, Martha and Mary, Lazarus’s sisters, publicly showed their love for Jesus.

Yet the Bible is not a book in which all the women’s actions are emulated. There are women whose behaviors are loathsome and reprehensible. Remember the story of the woman who agreed to the judgment of King Salomon Solomon when he ordered the baby alive to be divided into two halves, one half for each mother. Who could forget the story of Jezebel who turned Ahab from the true God to serve Baal? She also ordered the slaying of all God’s prophets. And also, not to forget Athaliah who called for the massacre of the entire royal race in a seizing power scheme to become queen.

This realism, with which the Bible presents its women, some as heroes while others as villains, can provide an inspiring example to readers. The Bible shows God accomplishing many great things using simple and ordinary people. In today’s complex and challenging world, these lessons can be comforting and encouraging.

Women of the Holy Bible will serve as a useful tool to explore the lives and deeds of the Bible’s prominent and obscure legends. This book is a compilation of almost all of the women mentioned in the Holy Bible. Entries have been assigned different lengths, depending on the characters’ relative importance.

This book is written for a general adult audience with no sectarianism or confessional slant intended. The Women of the Holy Bible are to facilitate both French and English readers.

Many women of the Bible are proud, stuck-up, rude, disobedient, ungrateful, godless, heartless, hateful, sneaky, and puffed-up with pride. Instead of loving God they love pleasure. However, many others exemplify a way of life that depicts undefiled ordinance of God. Most of these characters have been successful in their lives, but as we all do, have experienced many difficulties. Their lives have been up and down but they have kept their faith unwavering; although, scared and sometimes doubtful.

The Women of the Holy Bible will be presented in alphabetical order. First, we will present the women who were portrayed positively, next, the ones that were portrayed negatively, and finally those who were unknown or not so well known. We may learn from the examples of some of the Bible’s characters and choose our own pathway.

Women Portrayed Positively

Abigail: enthusiasm, father’s joy

She was the wife of Nabal from Carmel. Very smart and beautiful, she ignored her husband’s orders not to give supplies to King David and his soldiers. Secretly, she prepared an offering and brought it to David. She fell to the king’s feet and said: My lord, do not take seriously this ill-natured man; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I am your servant (1 Sam. 25:24-25). Informed by his wife’s action, Nabal succumbed to a heart attack. Upon Nabal’s death, Abigail accepted David’s offer of marriage (1 Sam 40 25:40-44). Later, Abigail was taken captive in the camp at Ziklag, by raiding Amalekites; she was freed with the other captives, by David, her husband (1 Sam. 30:5:18). Abigail was the mother of David’s second son, Chileab (2 Sam 3:3) also called Daniel (1 Chr.3:1).

Abishag: my father strays

She was a beautiful young woman of Shunem who was brought to King David to serve as his caretaker when he was very old and failing in health. Every night, she lied in the king’s bosom in order to keep him warm but David did not know her sexually (1 R. 1-4). After David’s death, Adonija asked Bathsheba, King Solomon’s mother, to request from her son to give him Abishag as bride; Solomon refused, seeing the request as another attempt to throw him out of power and had Adonija put to death (1 Kings 1:1-4; 2:13-25).

Anna: grace, favor

She was the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Ashur. She married for seven years, then widowed. At eighty-four years old, she never left the Temple. She spent her time serving God day and night with fasting and prayer. She was there, when Mary and Joseph brought their first born, Jesus to the Temple to be redeemed. She praised God and spoke about the child to everyone who was waiting for the deliverance of Israel by the Messiah to come (Luke 2:36-38).

Bathsheba: daughter of the oath

She was the daughter of Ammiel and the wife of Uriah the Hittite,