Thematic Bible: Maternal


Thematic Bible



If you see your enemy's cow or donkey running loose, take it back to him. Verse ConceptsDuties To EnemiesAnimals Going Astrayfriendliness



If I have rejoiced at the ruin of those who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook them, Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfDuties To EnemiesPeople Without Mercy


If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink. You will heap coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah will reward you.

He turned them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged all seven of them on the mountain near the place where Jehovah was worshiped. This happened right at the beginning of the barley harvest. Rizpah daughter of Aiah spread some sackcloth on a nearby rock. She would not let the birds land on the bodies during the day. She kept the wild animals away at night. She stayed there from the beginning of the harvest until it started to rain.

She sat across from him at a distance. She thought: I cannot watch the boy die. She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveDepression, SymptomsLove, And The WorldFear, Of DeathNot Seeing PeopleSoliloquyFear Of DeathOthers MourningDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Motherdistance


His mother made him a little robe. She brought it to him when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. Verse ConceptsGesturesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsMaternal LoveChildren, needs ofLove, And The WorldRobesDressPeople Giving ClothesEvery Yearmoms


With a heart full of love for her son the real mother said: Please, Your Majesty, do not kill the child! Give it to her! But the other woman said: Do not give it to either of us cut it in two. Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldMercy, HumanBowelsHalf Of BodiesPeople Showing MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenHaving A Babybaby

The servant carried the boy back to his mother. She held him in her lap until noon. Then the boy died. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldPeople Sitting DownDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

When she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of papyrus reeds and coated it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in it and set it among the papyrus reeds near the bank of the Nile River. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveCoatsBoatsBitumen and tarLove, And The WorldMineralsPapyrusPlantsUnable To Do Other ThingsRivers

His mother stood by the stake of Jesus, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldExamples Of Mothers' LoveThe CrossDeath Of A MotherJesus Deathcrucifixion