Monthly Archives: April 2012

In Judges 21 God has rejected the tribe of Benjamin. All of the women are dead and the men who escaped are in the wilderness. The people of Israel vow not to let their women marry any Benjaminite. But, the … Continue reading →

In Judges 19 and 20 the Levite priest takes a concubine from Bethlehem, his hometown. She becomes angry with him and goes back home. He returns for her and takes her back with him. They leave Bethlehem in the evening … Continue reading →

Judges 17 and 18 contain an involved story about a man named Micah, his priest from the Levites and the Danites. Micah makes a silver idol and retains the services of a priest who comes to him from Bethlehem in … Continue reading →

In Judges 15 Samson goes to see his wife, but her father refuses to let him see her because he had given her to Samson’s best man. The father offers her younger sister to him. But Samson refuses. In anger … Continue reading →

In Judges 13 and 14 the Israelites sin again and God allows the Philistines to rule them for forty years. An angel of the Lord visits the wife, who is barren, of a man named Manoah from the tribe of … Continue reading →

Judges 11 and 12 tell the story of Jephthah of Gilead. Jephthah was an outcast because his mother was a prostitute, but he was a great warrior. When the people of Gilead find themselves in a war with the Ammonites … Continue reading →

In Judges 9, after Gideon dies, his son Abimelech conspires with his mother’s family who live in Shechem to become the ruler of Israel. They give him money from the temple of a Baal. Abimelech goes to his father’s house … Continue reading →

In Judges 7 and 8 Gideon and his troops are ready to attack the Midianites. God tells Gideon that there are too many Israelite troops. If they were to conquer the Midianites they would take the credit for themselves and … Continue reading →

Judges 5 contains a song from Deborah and Barak recounting the battle with the Canaanites. It is a song of praise to the Lord. Israel remains at peace for 40 years. Judges 6 opens with the people again doing evil … Continue reading →

Judges 3 and 4 recounts that God leaves the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites in the Promised Land to test Israel and see if they will obey the commandments of the Lord. They … Continue reading →