Bath-shua

Family: Canaanites · Role: Judah's wife · First appears: Judah And His Sons

At Adullam, Bath-shua, a Canaanite woman, married Judah. While Judah was away, she chose a Canaanite wife for her son Shelah.

Bath-shua died a year after her two sons. In his testament, Judah said that he had taken her to wife in mad love, against the Lord’s command and his father’s will.

Relationship record

Life events

• Judah married Bath-shua, a Canaanite woman.(Judah And His Sons · 📍 Adullam)
  • With: Judah
  • “intoxicated by wine and passion Judah took her and married her.”
• Bath-shua chose a Canaanite wife for Shelah.(Judah And His Sons)
  • With: Shelah
  • “while Judah was away from home, Bath-shua chose a wife for her son Shelah from the daughters of Canaan.”
• Bath-shua died.(Judah And His Sons)
  • “and her death happened a year after that of her two sons.”
• In Judah's testament, Judah took Bath-shua to wife.(Judah Warns Against Greed And Unchastity)
  • With: Judah
  • “In mad love for her, I violated the command of the Lord and the will of my father, and I took her to wife.”

Judah And His Sons

• married with Judah “The Adullamite king gave a banquet in his honor, at which his daughter Bath-shua poured the wine, and intoxicated by wine and passion Judah took her and married her.”
• child: Shelah “She hated Tamar because she was not of the daughters of Canaan like herself, and while Judah was away from home, Bath-shua chose a wife for her son Shelah from the daughters of Canaan.”

Judah Warns Against Greed And Unchastity

• married with Judah “In mad love for her, I violated the command of the Lord and the will of my father, and I took her to wife.”
• parent: Barsan “First I said to Bath-shua's father, 'I will take counsel with my father Jacob, to know whether I should marry thy daughter,'”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.