Judith (Hebrew Bible): Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
nn to main Tags: New redirect 2017 wikitext editor |
||
| (42 intermediate revisions by 30 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
#redirect[[Esau#Family]] |
|||
:''See [[Book of Judith]] about another later Judith in Jewish history.'' |
|||
'''Judith''' ('''יהודית''' "Praised" or "Jewess", [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Yəhudit''', [[Tiberian Hebrew]] '''Yəhûḏîṯ'''), the feminine form of [[Judah (biblical figure)|Judah]]. |
|||
Judith is the name of one of the two [[Hittites|Hittite]] wives of [[Esau]] in the [[Book of Genesis]] 26:34. Reportedly, Esau's two wives were a great deal of annoyance to his parents Isaac and Rebekah. As with in-laws in contemporary times, it is not uncommon for a few families to be grieved or inconvenienced by their children's spouses. It is written that when Esau was age forty, he took Judith, a Hittite and the daughter of Beeri, as his wife along with Bashemath, another Hittite and the daughter of Elon. The two wives were a grief of mind unto Isaac and Rebekah as written in Genesis 26:35. |
|||
When God allowed more than one wife for men in early Old Testament times, they were a blessing and essential for the re-population of one's own race. They also created great tribes of peoples and established their own cities. Because God is the only one allowed the authority to bestow or establish new covenants upon humankind, today it is pointless and unacceptable for both genders to have more than one spouse. Sometime during the Old Testament timeline, God re-established the covenant of marriage as only the union between one man and one woman. God did this because he knew centuries in advance that his human creation would suffer needless and unnecessary stress when one person would possess more than one spouse. |
|||
[[Category:Torah people]] |
|||
{{HeBible-stub}} |
|||
Latest revision as of 08:59, 10 July 2020
Redirect to: