Noah's Wife & 3 Daughter-in-Laws

These four women don’t have names that we know. Nowhere in the Bible are their names mentioned, but there are some things that we can assume from what we know about Noah and the story of the flood. First, Noah was a righteous man and God chose to save him when all the rest of humanity was destroyed in the flood. Second, Noah was obedient to God. Now let’s apply these things to the Noah’s wife and daughter-in-laws.

If Noah was a righteous man and chosen by God to be the builder of the ark, then his wife was also likely a righteous woman. When God saved Lot and his family, he didn’t save Lot’s wife because she was disobedient to the instructions He had given them. So, if Noah’s wife wasn’t a righteous woman why would God save her? After all, He was in the process of destroying all the earth because of the wickedness of the people.

Noah’s wife and daughter-in-laws must have been obedient. They got on the ark after all. This must not have been as easy thing to do. They were being asked to get into a huge boat with a bunch of animals and only their immediate family because God was going to bring a flood (which they had never experienced before) and destroy everything else. Talk about having to leave your normal life and everything you know and are use to behind. Not to mention the fact that everyone else, and I mean everyone else, was probably ridiculing them and thinking that they were crazy for what they were doing. Noah trusted God though and obeyed His every instruction. There isn’t any implication in Scripture that the women tried to argue any of this. They may have, but we know that they got on the ark and ultimately were obedient. Because of their obedience they were saved from destruction.