Marriages in the Bible

5. first born made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26)
8. tentmaker and close friend of Paul who worked with her husband in business and ministry (Acts 18:1-3, 24-26)
10. righteous priest whom God appeared to during his time at the temple and answered his prayer for a son (Luke 1:8-17)
12. devout worshipper of God, had two wives, father of Samuel (1 Sam. 1:1)
13. wife whose sons would forge two nations: one of the people of God, and one of a great pagan nation (Gen. 25:19-23)
17. descendent of Aaron whose son would proclaim the coming Messiah (Luke 1:5, 14-17)
18. wife whose unfaithfulness was intended to reflect the unfaithfulness of Judah and Israel (Hos. 1:2-3)

1. a Kenite whose alliance with Jabin, king of Canaan, lured an enemy general into his tent (Jud. 4:11, 17)
2. patriarch of Israel whose father desired for him to marry a wife that would not pull him away from God's people (Gen. 24:1-4)
3. wise Old Testament woman whose quick thinking and action spared her first husband's life before an Israelite king (1 Sam. 25:32-40)
4. wife who killed an opposing general while he was sleeping to deliver the Israelites from the Canaanites (Jud. 4:18-24)
6. young Israelite exile whose marriage would eventually deliver the people of God (Est. 2:17-20)
7. prayed for a son whom she would immediately devote to the Lord if He granted her request (1 Sam. 1:9-11)
9. King of Israel who married the wise woman after she convinced him to spare her first husband's life (1 Sam. 25:32-40)
10. daughter of a Midianite priest who tended sheep (Ex. 2:16-21)
11. fled Egyptian royalty to become the leader of the people of God (Ex. 2:16-21)
12. the mother of all the living (Gen. 3:20)
14. tentmaker and close friend of Paul who discipled Apollos (Acts 18:1-3, 24-26)
15. prophet who God instructed to marry an unfaithful wife and have children with her (Hos. 1:2-3)
16. King of the Medes and Persians who would save the people of God by listening to his wife (Est. 1:1-3; 8:7-14)