All the people who were in the court, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel; and may you achieve wealth in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem.

The foolish

The woman of folly is boisterous,
She is naive and knows nothing.

A foolish son is destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.

It is better to live in a corner of a roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him.

The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat.”

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

General references

All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.

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

Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.