and the young man lost no time in doing what was suggested, because he was in love with Jacob's daughter. He was the most important member of his family.

I will give up whole nations to save your life, because you are precious to me and because I love you and give you honor.

The people there were more open-minded than the people in Thessalonica. They listened to the message with great eagerness, and every day they studied the Scriptures to see if what Paul said was really true.

Then he had intercourse with his wife again, and she became pregnant and had a son. They named him Beriah, because of the trouble that had come to their family.

And he said to the woman, "I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him."

But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

She named the boy Ichabod, explaining, "God's glory has left Israel"---referring to the capture of the Covenant Box and the death of her father-in-law and her husband.