5 Named Women You May Not Have Known

As a quick post, I just wanted to bring to your attention 5 women who are named in the scriptures AND have stories, but are often forgotten. I think we should remember these women's names along with Rebekah, Sarai, and Rachel. Don't forget these women!

~1~  Deborah
Now, there's not a lot mentioned about her in the scriptures, but she has to have been an important person. Deborah was Rebekah's nurse. As Heather (Womeninthescriptures.blogspot.com) says, she was probably Rebekah's wet nurse and left with Rebekah when she got married. The reason I say she must have been important is because her death and her burial place are mentioned. That's rare for women in the scriptures. Mention of burial places has basically been reserved for the great forefathers and their wives. I have feeling she made a very big impact in Rebekah's life to be mentioned by the male writer of the Bible.

~2~ Asenath
Asenath is the wife of Joseph (sold into Egypt). First of all, she's the wife of that great seer. Second of all, it's mentioned that she's the daughter of a priest. Was she a priestess? What kind of priests were they? The Egyptians couldn't have been too far off from the real religion because they recognized the spirit of God that Joseph had. Is this a story of conversion? Or was the marriage of a seer and priestess? Anyway, just curious.

~3~ Keturah
Ok. So how many kids did Abraham have? Isaac and Ishmael right? Wrong. Everyone knows the story of Sarai and Hagar, but did you know that Abraham got remarried after Sarai died? He married Keturah and she gave him at least six more children. Now that's a lineage that we forget about. I wonder where that went!

~4+5~ Puah and Shiphrah
Ok. So you want a story? This is more of story than the three above. In fact, I'm sure you know this story but never learned the names of the women behind it. Remember how Pharaoh decided that the Hebrews were getting too numerous and started killing all the boy babies? That's how the whole Moses story got started right? What you may have forgotten is that before Pharaoh sent out the soldiers to kill babies, he tried to be sneaky first. He went to Puah and Shiphrah, the Hebrew midwives, and ordered them to kill all the male babies. Puah and Shiphrah not only didn't do as they were told (that's kind of a big deal) but they also were clever enough to come up with a response that didn't get themselves killed. So here's two women who are important to society, using knowledge that benefits everyone, being courageous like Ester and clever. Love it. The Bible has a lot of stories of clever women. (Rebekah, Tamar, Puah and Shiphrah . . . ) Don't forget their stories too!