Rebekah
Rebekah
Rebekah - HER NAME PROBABLY MEANS
“Loop” or “Tie”
| HER CHARACTER: | Hardworking and generous, her faith was so great that she left her home forever to marry a man she had never seen or met. Yet she played favorites with her sons and failed to trust God fully for the promise he had made. |
| HER SORROW: | That she was barren for the first twenty years of her married life, and that she never again set eyes on her favorite son, Jacob, after he fled from his brother Esau. |
| HER JOY: | That God had gone to extraordinary lengths to pursue her, to invite her to become part of his people and his promises. |
| KEY SCRIPTURES: | Genesis 24; 25:19 – 34; 26:1 – 28:9 |
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