10 Evil women in the Bible

1. Lot's wife – who turned back when the family fled from Sodom

2. Potiphar's wife – who tried unsuccessfully to lure Joseph into adultery

3. Cozbi – The Midianite princess who was killed by Phinehas because her evil influence was the source of a plague among the Israelites

4. Delilah – the Philistine who betrayed her husband Samson the Judge

5. The witch of Endor – To whom Saul went in his despair to consult Samuel

6. Athaliah - Queen of Judah during the reign of King Jehoram, and later sole ruler of Judah for five years

7. Jezebel – The pagan wife of King Ahab who plotted Naboth's death

8. Herodias – Illegitimate wife of Herod who hated John the Baptist and caused his death

9. Sapphira – Conspired with her husband to lie to the Holy Spirit and was struck dead

10. Job's wife – unnamed woman who urged her husband to curse God and die

10 Murderers in the Bible

I can't remember why this list came to mind now (probably reading the early chapters of Genesis)

1. Cain
2. Lamech
3. Moses
4. David
5. Absalom
6. Joab
7. Jezebel
8. Zimri
9. Jehu
10. Herod

Lord's Day January 5 2014

We began with communion at around 10.15. I then preached morning and evening looking at the flight into Egypt and the slaughter of the Bethlehem children from Matthew 2 in the morning and at Esther 3 in the evening. Both services were decently attended with a few visitors in. Having not preached twice on a Sunday much recently I noticed some things I have in the past. First, if you preach two sermons in one day, almost by definition one will be better than the other. In that case it is probably best to do the better one in the evening, which I don't think I did. There is also the matter of overlap. Because I dealt partly with Herod in the morning and Haman in the evening, there was a certain similarity in the material. I was probably a little tired in the evening too as were others. That's okay but one needs to take care. I read a very long chapter - our consecutive reading from Ezekiel. With one or two comments it took 15 minutes and that was too long. Still learning.