Judah's Wife Quotes

“ghost spiders”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“Did”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“Sometimes, after we lay ourselves down before HaShem, we simply know what is right.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“The Samaritans were relatives—a people who claimed to be descended from Israelites who survived the Babylonian invasion and intermarried with native peoples—a practice forbidden by the Law of Moses.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“Lawless men shrank back for fear of him; all the evildoers were confounded; and deliverance prospered by his hand. He embittered many kings, but he made Jacob glad by his deeds, and his memory is blessed forever. 1 Maccabees”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“him; they gladly fought for Israel. He extended the glory of his people. Like a giant he put on his breastplate; he girded on his armor of war and waged battles, protecting the host by his sword. He was like a lion in his deeds, like a lion’s cub roaring for prey. He searched out and pursued the lawless; he burned those who troubled his people.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“Then Judah his son, who was called Maccabaeus, took command in [Mattathias’s] place. All his brothers and all who had joined his father helped”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“Yet the Law of Moses commanded me to respect and obey that tyrant, and Solomon promised a blessing for those who honored their parents.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“And a happy man had no reason to fight.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“slave. And behold, our holy place, our beauty, and our glory have been laid waste; the Gentiles have profaned it. Why should we live any longer?” And Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned greatly. 1 Maccabees 2:1–14”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“For God never sleeps, and though He may not communicate as we expect Him to, He”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“God also prepared to fulfill His promise to the serpent in Eden: “I will put animosity between you and the woman, and between your descendant and her descendant; he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel” (Gen.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“the Christian Bible, one turns the page after Malachi and finds Matthew as if only a few days fell between the activities of the prophet and the arrival of Jesus Christ. In reality, however, four hundred so-called “silent years” lie between the Old Testament and New, a time when God did not speak to Israel through His prophets.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife