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Rembrandt, Timothy and his Grandmother, 1648.. According to the New Testament, Lois was the grandmother of Timothy.According to extrabiblical tradition, she was born into the Jewish faith, and later accepted Christianity along with her daughter Eunice.
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
An ancient belief held that a child born of an elderly mother who had given up hope of having offspring was destined for great things. Parallels occur in the Hebrew Bible in the case of Sarah, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac; Hannah, the mother of Samuel; [4] and in the New Testament in the case of the parents of John the Baptist.
The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible suggests that the common thread between all of these women is that they have associations with Gentiles. [104] Rahab was a prostitute in Canaan, Bathsheba was married to a Hittite, Ruth resided in Moab, and Tamar had a name of Hebrew origin. The women's nationalities are not necessarily mentioned.
Top Bible Verses About Family: ... Every generation of family shines in their own way: grandparents, parents, children. They are all important and necessary for the growth of the ancestral line ...
The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve.The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter.
13. "God, thanks for grandparents who think we're the next Einstein. Their belief in us is priceless." 14. "Lord, bless Grandma's famous lasagna and Grandpa's secret handshake. May they never ...
Levi (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ / LEE-vy; Hebrew: לֵוִי, Modern: Levī, Tiberian: Lēwī) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and Miriam. [3]