Thursday, June 11, 2015

Divided Families - 1

Naomi and daughter-in-law

Ruth 1:14-15

14 At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her.

15 “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”

Jephthan and brothers

Read Judges chapter 11

Elkanah and Wives

1 sam 1:1-9

1 There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 

2 He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

3 Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD. 

4 Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. 

5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb. 

6 And because the LORD had closed her womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.

7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 

8 God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.

Your Promise

 “We are so busy, Lord – how easy it is to become overwhelmed. Thank You for Your promise of rest. Amen.”  

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