And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;

The foolish

The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.

Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death.

General references

And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.

She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.