Question: What two women in the Bible had the name of Deborah?
Answer: A judge and Rebekah’s nurse. (Judges 4:4; Genesis 35:8).
Comments: The Bible's lesser known Deborah is given a seemingly random death announcement in Genesis 35:8. Scholars have presumed that she was carrying to Jacob the message that his beloved mother and her employer, Rebekah had died. Jacob, a mama’s boy, never saw his mother again after he defrauded his brother, Esau, out of his blessing.
When Jacob left her, Rebekah anticipated his being gone only a “few days” (Genesis 27:44) Thus, their story is very “Gilligan’s Island.”
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