A MOMENT OF EXCELLENCY IN WISDOM

Joshua son of Nun

Joshua 8:1-8

And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:2

And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

3So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

4And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

5And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

6(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

7Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

8And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

Wisdom of Solomon 8:17

“Now when I considered these things in myself, and pondered them in my heart, how that to be allied unto wisdom is immortality;” 

Unsung Sisters of Action: Hebrew midwives: Shiphrah & Puah

Exodus 1:17
“But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.” 

The children of Israel served the Egyptians with rigor, but the more they served the more the Hebrew women gave birth. Out of fear Pharaoh (assuming the Hebrews would multiply, and when there falleth out any war, the Hebrews would join also unto their enemies, and fight against them) spoke with the Hebrew midwives “When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 

Shiphrah and Puah were in dire straits! With a heinous decree laid to their power these sisters utterly refused to commit such acts, but instead choose to fear the LORD. These sisters continued to keep the male Israelites alive and when confronted again by pharaoh concerning this matter they said it plainly: “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.”

Regardless of the consequence Shiphrah and Puah trusted in YHWH, in return the MOST HIGH dealt well with the midwives and made them houses. The word “midwife” is a term which reflects the role of nurturing and supporting a woman during her pregnancy and childbirth.  Midwife has two very similar meanings: ‘a woman who is with the mother’ and ‘bring into being’.

Exodus 1:14-21

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