The leaders and the others said: Yes, we are witnesses. May Jehovah make your wife become like Rachel and Leah, who bore many children to Jacob. May you become rich in the clan of Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

The foolish

A foolish woman is noisy. She has no sense at all.

A foolish son is a disgrace to his father. A contentious wife is like drips from a leaky roof.

It is better to dwell on the corner of the roof than to share the house with a contentious (combative) woman.

It was as if he copied the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. He took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

Dogs will eat your relatives dying in the city. Vultures will eat your dead relatives in the country.

King Ahaziah's mother Athaliah learned of her son's murder. She gave orders for all the members of the royal family to be killed.

General references

All the skilled women brought fine linen thread and thread of blue, purple, and red wool, which they made.

She watches over her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

By indolence the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house collapses.