All God's Women takes listeners on a Bible study journey highlighting the stories of women in the Bible. We look at the familiar and famous Bible women as well as the obscure and unknown. Each has a story to tell, and host Sharon Wilharm loves sharing them. Discover life lessons we can take away from each of these ancient women and apply them to our modern day lives.
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episode 231: Leah's Sons
Leah thought she could win her husband’s love by providing him sons, but it didn’t work. We see in the naming of her sons and in her reactions to them her spiritual progression.
All God's Women is a women's Bible study podcast and internationally syndicated radio show where we journey through the Bible one woman at a time. If you enjoy learning about women in the Bible, tune in each weekday for bite-sized Bible stories about Bible women...
episode 232: Rachel Wants Children
Rachel was the beautiful one, loved and adored by her husband Jacob. But when she saw that Leah was bearing Jacob sons, and she was barren, Rachel grew envious. She ordered Jacob to give her children, or she would die. Jacob wasn’t the problem.
All God's Women is a women's Bible study podcast and internationally syndicated radio show where we journey through the Bible one woman at a time...
episode 233: Leah and Rachel Compete
Leah and Rachel both got caught up in a competition, trying to best the other one. In their fierce fight for more children, they lost sight of everything else. They didn’t appreciate the children they had because of their zeal for more children. Even Jacob took a backseat to their sister feud.
Sometimes we get so caught up in what we don’t have that we lose sight of what we have...
episode 234: Rachel and Leah Join Forces
For years Rachel and Leah competed for the affection of Jacob. But when Jacob came to them about the situation with their father, they joined forces and came together as family.
All God's Women is a daily women's Bible study podcast and internationally syndicated radio show where we journey through the Bible one woman at a time. If you enjoy learning about women in the Bible, tune in each weekday for bite-sized Bible stories about Bible women...
episode 235: Rachel and the Idols
In the process of fleeing from her father, Rachel stole his household idols. How easily Rachel deceived her father, stealing from him, hiding from him, and lying to him. Though she wasn’t caught, Jacob’s foreshadow of death would soon come true...
episode 236: Dinah
After Jacob’s family settled in the Canaanite city of Shechem, Leah’s daughter Dinah decided to explore the city. She went on her own into the city to meet other young women, but when Shechem, prince of the country, saw her, he fell in love with her. He brought her to the palace and had his way with her. He then asked his father to get her for his wife.
What Shechem did was wrong, but what the brothers did was worse. They knew what they were doing was evil...
episode 237: Deborah and Rachel's Deaths
Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse died and was buried under a terebinth tree in Bethel, and the tree was called Allon Bachuth, which means “oak of weeping”.
The family continued journeying, this time to Ephrath, or Bethlehem, but Rachel was pregnant and went into labor during their travel. The midwife tried to comfort her saying, “ “Do not fear, for you have another son.” But Rachel didn’t make it...
episode 238: Bilhah
We first met Bilhah in Genesis 29:29 when Rachel married Jacob, and Laban gave her Bilhah as her handmaiden.
When Leah had son after son, and Rachel remained barren, Rachel first blamed Jacob for her lack of children. Then she offered him Bilhah as a surrogate wife so that she could bear children through her servant.
Once Rachel bore her own son, Bilhah slipped into the background until after Rachel’s death when Jacob’s son Reuben lay with Bilhah...
episode 239: Esau's Family
Genesis 36 gives an account of Esau’s family including his wives Basemath, Adah, and Aholibamath, and his son’s concubine Timna. Adah and Aholibamath were Esau’s first wives who brought grief to his parents. Their names were changed, though, when they married. Basemath was Esau’s third wife who he married out of spite when he realized that his parents didn’t like his other Canaanite wives...
episode 240: Judah's Wife
Soon after Judah and his brothers sold Joseph into slavery, Judah left home and visited Hirah, an Adullamite. While there, Judah met a Canaanite woman, the daughter of Shua, and he married her.
The Bible gives us no details about the daughter of Shua other than she was a Canaanite, so Judah should not have married her. Her father’s name, Shua, means wealth. Perhaps Judah was attracted to their riches and wanted to attach himself to the wealthy family...