Motherhood may well be the most challenging job we ever have. No matter what we do, we always second guess ourselves, wondering if we’re doing the right thing, worrying that we’re going to mess up. Each of these Bible mothers faced their own mothering challenges. Some of them did a great job. Others, not so well. Each of them has lessons we can learn as we raise our own children.

Titus 2 Women
Titus was a Greek Gentile who traveled with Paul, working with Gentile converts in early Christian churches. The book of…

Women of Tyre
In Acts 21 we meet a group of unsung heroes, the women of Tyre. Paul and his missionary companions were…

Lois
Lois is perhaps the only woman in the Bible singled out for her role as a godly grandmother. “I am…

Eunice
Eunice was the mother of Paul’s protege, Timothy. We’re first introduced to her in Acts 16:1, but it’s not until…

Mother of the Blind Man
Jesus healed a man who’d been blind since birth. He spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva.…

Mary at the Wedding
Mary knew from the beginning that her son was the Messiah, the Savior of the world, but she didn’t always…

Mary as Mother of Jesus
The Bible doesn’t tell us much about Jesus as a child, but Luke 2 gives a tiny glimpse into what…

Mary the Mother of James and Joseph
As Jesus traveled, preached, and healed, it wasn’t only his twelve apostles who followed him. Many others, including women whose…

Salome
Salome was the wife of Zebedee and the mother of James and John. Some Bible scholars also believe she may…

The Canaanite Mother
Jesus needed a break from dealing with the religious leaders, so He and his disciples traveled to the region of…

Herodias
Herodias was the granddaughter of Herod the Great, the Herod who had all the baby boys killed in Bethlehem. This…

Balshazzar’s Mother
King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of her lords. In order to impress his guests, he decided…

Lo-Ruhamah
Hosea the prophet and Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, had three children. The first child was a son, and God…

Gomer
When God called Hosea to be a prophet, His first command was for Hosea to take a wife of harlotry…

King Lemuel’s Mother
We tend to look at Proverbs 31 as this impossible to achieve perfection that we must all strive for. It…

Job’s Wife
The book of Job includes 42 chapters. We get detailed scenes with Job’s friends and Job’s conversations with the Lord,…

Wives From Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab
After the completion of the wall, Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem to evaluate the situation. Unfortunately, he found much that disturbed…

Mother of Jabez
The books of 1 and 2 Chronicles are packed with genealogical lists. It’s easy to skim over them, assuming there’s…
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