From the beginning, God made a man and a woman as one together in Genesis 2:23 And the man said, “She is now bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; she shall be called ‘Woman,’ for she was…
Tag: Judges
There Is Nothing Better
Solomon was the wisest man of his time in 1 Kings 4:29–30 “God gave wisdom to Solomon and very great discernment, as well as breadth of understanding … greater than the wisdom of all the people of the east and…
How Did This Evil Act Occur
What should have been a night of hospitality among his brother Israelites for a traveling Levite and his party ends with the rape and death of his concubine. We may not accept this relationship, yet the man was her husband…
Each Did What Was Right In His Own Eyes
The children of Israel failed to possess the land of their inheritance and now God raises up men to help them as they live under oppression. Samson is born and raised a Nazirite of God, yet no one knows the…
Be Attentive To All That I Said
The children of Israel had been “in the hands of the Philistines forty years” in Judges 13:1 and the angel of the Lord comes to a woman that was infertile to raise up a deliverer. The angel tells her in…
What is Between You and Me
Jesus said in Luke 17:1 “It is impossible for causes for stumbling not to come, but woe to him through whom they come!” and here in Judges, we first have the rejection of Jephthah by his own people because in…
If You Have Acted In Good Faith
The Lord delivered Israel by the hand of Gideon and Israel has peace through the end of Gideon’s life but the people are not following God as their ruler as Gideon had said in Judges 8:23 But Gideon said to…
Yahweh Will Rule Over You
Israel was devastated as year after year, the people of the East came and stole their crops and flocks. The people were hiding, as was Gideon when the angel of the Lord appeared to him and called him to deliver…
Yahweh Is With You
The Israelites are hiding from “the people of the East” in Judges 6:3 that would “come up like a great number of locusts” in Judges 6:5 because these people came year after year and in Judges 6:4 “they left no…
I Will Sing Praise to Yahweh
Israel experiences oppression as they fall away from God and serve the nations around them or fall under the oppression of those among them. This is just what the Lord had said to them in Judges 2:3 “Now I say,…
I Give The Land Into His Hand
Even after the warfare to overthrow the kings and armies and governments that had previously possessed the land, and though they had years of peace, there were still Canaanites and others in the land that were rising up against Israel.…
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