What she did | Woman's Name |
Fought patriarchal system to keep her widowed mother-in-law from sliding into poverty | |
A warrior, prophetess, judge, poet, and musician | |
Raised her son, Hezekiah, to destroy idols, even in the face of her husband's royalty and idolatry | |
First woman to inspire music, both of harp and organ | |
Only ruling queen of Judah | |
Wife of Aaron, first head of Hebrew priesthood, ancestress of entire Levitical priesthood | |
Became wife of Ahasuerus (Xerxes), king of Persia, saved the Jews from genocide | |
Abraham's handmaid, mother of Ishmael | |
Mother of Moses, Miriam, and Aaron | |
Midwife, disobeyed Pharaoh by not killing Hebrew sons | |
Disobeyed her husband, a king, by not coming to dance for him and his drunk friends | |
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