Extraordinary Women of the Bible The Basket (2018– ) Online

Extraordinary Women of the Bible The Basket (2018– ) Online

There are mightier and more famous female characters in the Bible, but Bithia rings true as a woman: tender, kind and brave. In saving a small child, she proved herself ready to defy the cruel edict of her father. No scene could have been drawn more brilliantly in the Bible than the one penned of Bithia - "and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him". Her achievement in saving the life of Moses, in offering him royal protection and in educating him in one of the greatest priestly colleges of all time, is one of the most important acts in the Bible. The story of Pharaoh's daughter as the princess who found amongst the reeds of a river bank a little ark with a young child inside is exquisitely remembered; however, one is apt to forget the great historic fact that the most powerful religious force of the Old Testament owes its preservation to this incident. Her brief appearance is often thought to be trivial and accidental, but her story reveals that her steps were divinely ...