Tag: Judges

We would do well to emulate the father of Sampson when he heard need that his wife would bare a son—his response was to pray for directions in receiving the promised blessing.

The host of Midian should never have been frightened of 300 but when 300 men with lamps and trumpets appeared out of the darkness how many men did they think they were facing? How many men would normally be attached to a single trumpeter? It’s no wonder they were confused and frightened.

If we ever think that Israel has a smooth path of relative obedience after Moses it can only because their centuries of oscillating between calling upon the Lord for deliverance and serving the gods of the nations who possessed the land before them are covered quickly.

It is hard to fathom how wicked the men of Gibeah were and disappointing to see how the men of Benjamin insisted on defending them. It occurs to me that the priests of Noah took the solution that the people of Israel used to preserve the tribe of Benjamin as their inspiration when they kidnapped…

I knew that Delilah want good for Samson not I had forgotten that the wife of his youth also aligned herself with his enemies. Samson was apparently skilled at attaching himself to women who did not seek to be aligned with him.

The system of judges – if it can even be called a system – was not a stable arrangement. Nothing was organized such as a method of succession or any assurance that there would be a judge at any given time. I’m sure to outside nations Israel appeared to be loyalty affiliated tribes rather than…

The Lord showed incredible Patience to not utterly cast off the children of Israel considering how consistently they someone’s Him and worshipped other gods.

I know that the people of Israel were inconstant but I hadn’t realized how determined they seem to be to turn away from the Lord God.

As I read about the people of Israel I wonder how they could turn to other gods so quickly – doing exactly the opposite of what they were commanded and running they daughters in marriage to those who knew not the God of Israel. Then I wonder if the modern covenant people who live among…

I wonder how much of it was because the children of Israel did not drive all the Canaanites out of the land that they turned so rapidly to serving other gods as soon as the generation of Joshua died and after the death of each successive judge who led them truly.