Monday 8 October 2012

Harlots, Adulteresses and Deceivers in the Bible


Within the Bible there are some women that are portrayed badly as they sinned. Some examples of these women are Bathsheba, Delilah, and Drusilla.

Bathsheba didn't intend on sinning, but the captain of her husband's army called for her after seeing her bathing. She became pregnant and an elaborate plan was hatched by the captain to get her husband to stay with her for the night; this failed and he then had him murdered in battle. Bathsheba didn't know her husband had been murdered and ended up marrying the captain. 

Delilah was powered by greed and her own beauty. She used her beauty to entice the hero of the Israelites to find out the way to break his strength and make him become weak. She did this through lulling him to sleep and calling on a man to cut his hair (which was his vow to God to keep his strength).

Drusilla was married at 15 to a King after he turned to Judaism; not long after she cheated on the King with a Roman Governor. The Governor kidnapped her and they married illegally as she was not a widow or divorced. Drusilla then took the Governor as her husband and this claimed her reputation as a sinned woman.

These stories and more of these women can be found here:
          http://www.netplaces.com/women-of-the-bible/adulteresses-harlots-and-deceivers/

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