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Marriage is...Responsibility & Servanthood Part 5

שׁפחה

shiphchâh

maid, maid-servant, slavegirl of address, speaker, humility (figuratively)

In marriage, the wife who remains faithful to the role of maid-servant can expect blessings from Adonai on her children, her husband and on herself. By respecting the covering and the covenant before Yehovah, she can affect far reaching blessings for family and the community into the future.

RUTH

Then she said, "I have found favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants."

Ruth 2:13

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves." Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil."Then he said, "Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few. And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all these vessels, and you shall set aside what is full." So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured.  When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." And he said to her, "There is not one vessel more." And the oil stopped. Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest."

2 Kings 4:1-7

The Shunnamite Woman

Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food. She said to her husband, "Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God passing by us continually.  "Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there." One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and rested.  Then he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." And when he had called her, she stood before him. He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?'" And she answered, "I live among my own people." So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" And Gehazi answered, "Truly she has no son and her husband is old."He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the doorway. Then he said, "At this season next year you will embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant."   The woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.

2 Kings 4:8-17

10  א Who can find a capable wife? Her value is far beyond that of pearls. 11  ב Her husband trusts her from his heart, and she will prove a great asset to him.

12  ג She works to bring him good, not harm, all the days of her life.

Proverbs 31:10-12

צ She watches how things go in her house, not eating the bread of idleness.

Proverbs 31:27

QUESTIONS

Class 20: Responsibility and Servanthood Part 5

The role of the maidservant is to continually SEEK to bless and bring honor to the Master’s house and the Master’s Name. In TRUTH, the maidservant who despises the head of the house or disrespects that man will bring shame and misery and pain on her own head. It makes NO SENSE to act on those feelings because YHVH says they are NOT APPRPOPRIATE. Read the passage of the Shunnamite woman 2 Kings 4:8-17
• What does the SCRIPTURE tell us about the REASON the woman troubled her elderly husband to take the time and energy to build a furnished room for the prophet?
• What does the SCRIPTURE tell us is the REASON the man agreed to the time, the energy, and the expense of building this very comfortable room for Elisha..especially amazing since we are told that they had NO sons to even help the man with tall that work.
• Discuss the role of maidservant in this passage.
o According to the woman’s viewpoint, whom does she serve?
o According to the elderly man’s view point, whom does he serve?
o According to YHVH’s character and promises, how does the Master of the universe express HIS evaluation of HIS servants in this passage?

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