Since Matthew was writing to a patriarchal society, the geology he wrote down was mostly men. But a few notable women were mentioned:
👉Tamar, who showed out Judah's hypocrisy.
👉Rahab, the Canaanite prostitute who found YHWH
👉Ruth, the Moabite whose faithfulness put Israel to shame
👉 Bathsheba, the wife of the Hittite convert Uriah, whom David murdered
👉Mary, the virgin God chose to bear His Son.
5 women were mentioned, all were “unsavoury” in some way by the eyes of the world, (Mary was seemingly unsavoury though she hadn't done anything wrong. Bathsheba really had no choice, she couldn't defy the king, but the sexist society would view her negatively.)
But God took their faith and did extraordinary things.
Verse 19: Joseph could have felt very betrayed. The girl he was going to marry seemingly went and slept with another man. He had the right to expose her to public shame, but he determined not to, but just to annul the engagement quietly.
“Vengeance is mine, says the Lord” - it's so hard to restrain our own desire for revenge when we've been hurt. But it's what God calls us to.
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