![]() His mother counseled him in all things evil. But if ever there was a mama’s boy, King Ahaziah filled the bill. Married to Jehoram, King of Judah, their son Ahaziah inherited the throne of David when Jehoram died. Judges 13 through 15 gives us the complete story of Samson’s life… and cold-hearted Delilah knew what the Philistines planned, yet lulled Samson to sleep and rendered him helpless for the sake of cold, hard cash.Īhab and Jezebel’s daughter, Athaliah, followed her mama’s footsteps-a devout Baal worshiper. And this money-minded bad girl went straight to the Philistines, collected her blood money, and set the trap. Scripture tells us his soul was annoyed to death and finally told her all that was in his heart. Even though every time she enlisted Philistines to take him captive. But he teased her with false tales, and over and over came back for more. She pleaded for Samson to tell her the secret of his great strength. ![]() She must have been a beauty with a persuasive manner fed by a lust for gold. Scripture reveals Samson was a Nazarite from the womb, but Samson had a great weakness. The account of Israel’s most colorful judge-Samson-introduces another truly bad girl, Delilah. “Most blessed of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite most blessed is she of women in the tent…” ( Judges 5:24 NAS). Could God count on you to be that kind of bad when He calls you to serve Him? ![]() Scripture blesses Jael forever in Judges 5:24-27. She grabbed a hammer, drove a tent peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. ![]() Her husband was at peace with the Canaanite king, but Jael invited this evil, fleeing commander into her tent, soothed him with kind words, fed him, and wooed him to sleep on her living room carpet. God routed Sisera’s army and this enemy commander fled to the tent of Jael. Deborah said, “I will go… but the Lord will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman.” Israel’s commander, Barack, less than a mighty warrior, quipped to Judge Deborah’s instruction from God to him… I’ll go to battle if you’ll go with me. God sold His people into the hands of a Canaanite king whose commander was Sisera-a leader with 900 iron chariots who oppressed the sons of Israel for 20 years. A time when the sons of Israel continually chose evil in the sight of the Lord. “… Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua spared and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho” ( Joshua 6:25 NAS).įast forward to the times of Israel’s Judges. Read Joshua 2 for the beginning of Rahab’s encounter with God and Israel. And Matthew 1:5 confirms this woman-with-a-past is listed in the lineage of our Lord Jesus Christ through her marriage to Salmon and birth of her son Boaz. The faith of Rahab the harlot is confirmed in Hebrews 11:31. ![]() Rahab and her family were spared when the walls of Jericho fell flat. The spies instructed Rahab to hang a scarlet cord in her window and to gather all her family inside. She asked if they would deal kindly with her and her father’s household. Before the two men went to sleep, Rahab returned and professed her faith in the Lord God of heaven and earth. Rahab hid the two under stalks of flax on her roof and lied to the king, telling him the spies left before the city’s gates closed. But the king of Jericho was told and sent men to arrest them. The spies lodged at the house of Rahab, the harlot. Joshua was their leader and God instructed him to send two men as spies to view this land, “… especially Jericho.” God’s chosen people crossed the Jordan into the promised land. ![]()
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