Judges ⁽²¹⁾

Passage Read: Joshua 22 - Judges 1 Meditation Verse: Judges 1:33 Each tribe had their challenges. Some pockets of Canaanites and Amorites were too strong and too determined to remain alive and in the land! So the tribes compromised and lived among them, until they…

Passage Read: Judges 18-21 Meditation Verses: 19:29-30 There are so many problems with this story that no one in it seems aware of; it perfectly illustrates the moral lostness of the nation at this time. The Levite apparently had no normal wife, so he buys…

Passage Read: Judges 14-17 Meditation Verse: 14:4 Samson is no paragon of virtue, yet he is chosen by God to plague the Philistines, who rule over His people. He is no model of godliness. Instead, he is ruled by his passions. What were his parents…

Passage Read: Judges 10-13 Meditation Verses: 11:1-2 Jephthah was the son of Gilead by a prostitute, so Gilead was not a faithful believer in God, at least in his youth. He apparently married after that and had other sons by his wife. Those sons drove…

Passage Read: Judges 6-9 Meditation Verse: 6:13 Gideon doesn't seem aware of the reasons for God abandoning the people to the power of Midian. He speaks as if God just decided one day to give them up and ignore them. But a prophet was just…