All God's Women

King Jeroboam was an evil man. He brought idol worship to a new level. He made priests out of every class of people. Whoever wanted to be a priest, he consecrated, and he became one of the priests of the high places where they worshipped their idols. Then his son Abijah got sick.

Since Jeroboam wasn’t exactly on the best of terms with God’s prophets, he told his wife to disguise herself and go to Shiloh to seek advice from the prophet Ahijah...

King Rehoboam was the son of Solomon and Naamah. Naamah was one of Solomon’s many wives who drew him away from the true God and led him to evil idol worship. 

1 Kings 14:21-22 let’s us know that not only did Naamah influence Solomon, but their son Rehoboam as well. 

2 Chronicles 12:13-14 reiterates that Rehoboam was the son of Naamah, “and he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord...

King Rehoboam married eighteen wives and sixty concubines, but of all his wives and concubines, he loved Maacah the most. Though she was not his first, she was his favorite.

Rehoboam fathered twenty eight sons and sixty daughters. He decided that Maachah’s son Abijam should be his successor, even though Abijam was not the firstborn. Rehoboam appointed Abijam as chief prince among his brothers...

Over 600 years before the birth of Jesus, the prophet Isaiah, told us that Mary, a virgin, would bear a child who would come to save the world.

In Isaiah 7:14 Isaiah prophesied, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel...

The angel Gabriel came to the virgin Mary at her home in Nazareth, greeting her with, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!” (Luke 1:28 NKJV)

Mary was a young woman from a poor, nondescript family, engaged to Joseph, the carpenter. She was going about her own business when the angel showed up at her doorstep...

After her own meeting with the angel Gabriel, Mary came to visit her cousin Elizabeth. Though Mary was young and Elizabeth old, they shared the common experience of bearing special sons.

When Mary arrived at Elizabeth’s house, Elizabeth greeted her with the same words the angel used, “Blessed are you among women.” Elizabeth’s baby leaped in her womb at the sound of Mary’s voice, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit...

Mary visited with Elizabeth and Zacharias for three months, then returned home. 

In the meantime, Joseph found out about Mary’s pregnacy and prepared to privately put her away, but God came to him in a dream and let him know that the baby was conceived by the Holy Spirit. He reminded Joseph of Isaiah’s prophecy of a virgin bearing a son. So Joseph did as the angel instructed and took Mary as his wife...

Anna was a prophetess of the tribe of Asher. She was an elderly woman who had lived with a husband seven years and was a widow of about eighty-four years. Depending on how you interpret that, she could have been eighty-four years old. Or, she could have been eighty-four plus seven plus however old she was before she got married. In other words, over one hundred. However you interpret it, she was no spring chicken...

Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of Sidonia, married Ahab, king of Israel. Abab was more evil than all the kings before him.

All God's Women is a daily devotional women's Bible study podcast and internationally syndicated radio show where we journey through the Bible one woman's story at a time. If you enjoy learning about women in the Bible, tune in each weekday for 2-minute Bible stories about Bible women...