Category: Old Testament

Let’s open our Bibles to Judges chapter 4. We’ll cover the 4th and 5th chapters in this book today. It’s the story of another judge – another tribal leader. Remember — we’ve seen three judges so far. The first was Othniel the nephew of Caleb. He comes at the beginning of this long sequence of…

So, let’s take a step back. Think of what we’ve read so far. Idols, a Levite leaving his ministry to take on the administration of a house of idols. The owner of that house looking at all that’s transpired and thinking “Wow, the Lord is really blessing me. I even got me a Levite to…

In Judges chapter 3, verses 1 through 4 we get a list of the nations that God left in Canaan and a few more pieces of information.  3:1 ¶ Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of…

We saw from the end of Judges 1 that Israel had not taken all the land that God had promised them. But why? Is God unfaithful? Did he break his promise with the children of Israel to drive out the Canaanites? Let’s read God’s explanation of this series of events in 2:1-3. 2:1 ¶ And an…

Open your Bible to the 1st chapter of the book of Judges. Judges 1 Commentary: Last Time Last week we got a broad overview of this book. We saw its three main sections – the double introduction, followed by the cycles of judges in the middle of the book, and closed by the double conclusion.…

Judges Summary: Open your Bible to the book of Judges. Judges, chapter 1. We’re about to embark on what I trust will be a pretty exciting noteworthy voyage through the book of Judges. Judges Bible Study From the Beginning But before we get to the book itself, let’s remind ourselves of how we got here.…