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Bookmark or Share- Genealogy of Judah to King David - Bible StudyEr, the firstborn son, died before he and his wife Tamar could produce any children. One of the marriage traditions at the time was that a brother, in this case Onan, was duty bound to marry his brother's childless widow and produce offspring in his brother's name. This practice would later be codified by Moses (Deuteronomy 25:5).
- Menopause and the Bible - Bible StudyOf the seven barren women mentioned in the Bible (Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Samson's mother, Hannah, Michal, Elizabeth), four of them were healed and able to bear children before menopause. Two of them (Sarah and Elizabeth) were healed after they reached their "change of life" and bore a child, and one (Michal) was childless all her life.
- Family Inheritance and the Bible - Bible StudyFor example, most states in America have laws that grant a surviving widow within a family the right to claim a certain percentage (e.g. one third or one half) of her dead husband's estate is hers to keep.
- Is It Wrong to Wear Earrings? - Bible StudyThe Bible does show that people did wear earrings (the Hebrew word nexem, Strong's Concordance Number #5141, means nose ring, earring or jewel), bracelets, jewels around the neck and other adornments.
- The Legal Genealogy of Jesus - Bible StudyHow did one king, declared by God to be "childless," end up being one of Christ's descendants? Son of David Matthew's genealogy tackles the question, especially among the Jews in his day, regarding whether Jesus could legally claim he was the "King of the Jews" (Matthew 2:2, 27:11) through his connection to King David.
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