Category: Judges
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Outrage!
Judges 20:6 “So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.” Outrage: what an apt word to describe the spirit of the age. Everywhere we look today, be it in the press, on…
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Safe and secure?
Judges 18:7 “Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.” Judges 18:27-28 “But…
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Religious inventions
Judges 17:13 “Then Micah said, ‘Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.’” Why do people who are not Christians go to church? Why do they give their hard-earned money to religious purposes when their “religion” is not legitimate in the eyes of God? Well, why do people do…
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Is it right?
Judges 17:6 “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” The latter part of the book of Judges can largely be summarized by the verse above. Basically, this verse is nothing but a reiteration of what had been said very early in the book: “Then the Lord raised…
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Whose rules rule?
Judges 17:6 “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Is racism a bad thing? Says who? Is it evil because you say it is, or I do, or the government? What if your name is Hitler or David Duke? If evil is based on…
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The sojourners
Judges 16:30 “And Samson said, ‘Let me die with the Philistines.’” Psalm 39:4-5, 12-13 “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a…
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He died with his enemies
Judges 16:30 “And Samson said, ‘Let me die with the Philistines.’” Samson was such an enigma. Here was one who was set apart to God as a Nazirite “from the womb to the day of his death” (Judges 13:7). He was set apart for the work of saving Israel from the hand of the Philistines…
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Tough love
Judges 16:4-5; 15-18 “After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, ‘Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we…
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Two kinds of strength
Judges 14:1-3 “Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. Then he came up and told his father and mother, ‘I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.’ But his father and mother said to him, ‘Is there not…
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The sun of God
Judges 13:24-25 “And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the Lord blessed him. And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.” The other day I was reading Psalm 84 and I came across verse 11 which says, “For the LORD God is a sun and…
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