Category: Judges
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Good and evil: what’s the difference?
Judges 10:6 “The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.” How do you differentiate…
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The wonderful shadows of Jair and his sons
Judges 10:3-4: “After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.” In the verses above we have all that the Bible tells us about the judge Jair, Israel’s savior,…
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Saved by a worm?
Judges 10:1 “After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah” The condescension of our great God to come to earth to humble Himself to die on a cross is something that is almost too magnificent to put into words. We see a possible allusion to this in the man Tola, one of…
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You’ve gotta serve somebody
Judges 9:1-2 “Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family, ‘Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, “Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule…
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Providence
Judges 7:5-7 “And the Lord said to Gideon, ‘Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.’ And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt…
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Confidence with humility
Judges 6:36-38 “Then Gideon said to God, ‘If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel…
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Immanuel
Judges 6:11-16 “Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, ‘The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.’ And Gideon said to him,…
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Dealing with strife
Judges 6:6 “And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the Lord.” As we’ve weathered the coronavirus pandemic together, it’s been interesting to observe how people have reacted over the last three years. On the one hand, there has been a sense of unity…
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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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