Women in the Bible
Lesson Ten: by turtle

Today I am revising some old notes. Last week we discussed  the other women and how she
prevailed despite her circumstances. But what about first lady, and also the adulteress women.
These are hot topics but God loves women and men. And He often uses the language that men
know and women understand as well to speak to our hearts.

Esther 1:15-22 KJV
(15)  What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed
the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
(16)  And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done
wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the
provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
(17)  For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise
their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti
the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
(18)  Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which
have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
(19)  If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written
among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more
before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
(20)  And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his
empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and
small.
(21)  And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of
Memucan:
(22)  For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the
writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his
own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.

There was a time in ancient days that women were consider property. Women could be traded
on a whim. Some traditions are still carried over in today’s society. From the man that
marries giving a dime to the father. The feeling of being sold for a price. Yet this tradition and
many others carry on even today. Women are some societies are not always consider treasured.
God treasure each and every women. He loves each of us the same.

This story in Ester might be best done in two parts, but I am looking at Chapter one as a whole.
Queen Vashti was asked to come and show her beauty to the king and the men around her. She
instead refused to come. Her husband then decided to humiliate her by punishing her and
bashing her as his wife. She with all dignity held her head high so to speak. She however sets the
example for all women, not to be immodest because hubby says so. Immodesty in front of only
your husband is fine, but in front of the rest of the world is bad. No women should ever be
made to feel like a second class citizen in this day and time. Some traditions need to be
destroyed.

Christ had respect for women. If you think about the adulterous woman who was caught in
adultery. How did Christ treat her, but with utter respect. He told her to go and sin no more. He
could of judge her and condemned her but He did not. Instead he treated her with love and
compassion.

John 8:2-11 KJV
(2)  And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him;
and he sat down, and taught them.
(3)  And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they
had set her in the midst,
(4)  They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
(5)  Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
(6)  This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down,
and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
(7)  So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is
without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
(8)  And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
(9)  And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one,
beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in
the midst.
(10)  When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman,
where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
(11)  She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin
no more.

The compassion of Christ is how we should treat others seeped in sin. How we should treat each
other when it comes to sin. The truth is, sometimes we got to move away from the hurt and the
pain even when we forgive, but Christ forgiveness is pure and does not push us away, instead He
embrace us even in our sin and calls us to repentance. When women are made to feel like they
have no brains or any train of thought, they are doing just as these men were in the Bible. The
king and the Pharisees. Christ has compassion for the women and loved them and treated them
with respect.