We Stood Beside Them: Other Wives of the Patriarchs
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Five matriarchs …
Each with a different purpose …
While each share in a love for husband, family, and Jehovah.
Men tell their stories, focusing on the hunt, the teaching, and activities of men. Women’s stories are different. Women care about families, husbands, and God.
Tasked with the duty to record the story of their life, each woman trusted her husband, knowing only Jehovah could protect their families, their husbands, and their own life. Only the travels of their husbands in service to Jehovah separated them. Only Jehovah could protect them from the wickedness that filled the land.
In the end, each hoped to make a difference in the lives of other women. Each woman planned to continue to love, to live with Father and Jehovah through the eternities, together with their loved ones.
Praise for this book
There are five fictionalized biblical matriarchs, all married to the righteous men in the line of Jesus. Their stories are each engaging, dramatic and inspired with the love of God. Noah’s mother says her life was not nearly as interesting or challenging as the women before her, but you’ll see this is not the case. Each story here is delightfully written and will give you a new feel and vision of mankind’s lineage from Adam to Noah. Witness the choosing of the righteous prophets, their courtships for a wife and families raised, dangers and challenges they would have suffered through, successes in doing God’s will and heavenly rewards won through steadfast obedience. Great reading!!
What a beautiful conclusion to a wonderfully wholesome series! This book is different from the previous books in the Ancient Matriarchs and Lost Children of the Prophets in that it follows 5 generations of women whose stories interlace with those of the other women introduced in previous books. It is full of new characters and stories, new perspectives, and familiar faces and places.
Each story includes a clean sweet romance (I think Qutarah and Methuselah was my favorite!) as well adventures. The joys and triumphs, as well as the trials and challenges. The laughter and the heartbreak. I really liked the way the five stories in this book worked together to tell a larger story that wrapped through all of them. This is Biblically inspired faith based fiction that stays close to the heart of its source even though much of the material is of necessity imagined.
While this is a very satisfying conclusion to the series, it can also be enjoyed as a standalone and if you are new to Ms Conger's writing would make an excellent introduction to the series as well.