Category: Judges 3
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Shamgar and his oxgoad
Judges 3:31 “After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.” One of the judges, the saviors of Israel, that we learn about in the book of Judges is Shamgar. We know very little about him, for his name appears only in the verse above…
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The great “left-handed One” at the right hand of God
Judges 3:15 “Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man.” The book of Judges is an account of a series of judges that God raised up to deliver Israel time after time as they, in their times of disobedience, fell…
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The Lion and the Lamb
Judges 3:9-10 “But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord…
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One by one
Judges 3:1-4 “Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan . . . They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.”…
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