Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,

The foolish

The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat."

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.

General references

And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.