Tag: Judges
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A righteous judge
Christ gave His life so that a righteous judgement could be given to men. Without His gift either men would be universally rejected from eternal life or they would be unfairly rewarded. Because of His intercession we can righteously be accepted into heaven.
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Gideon
Gideon didn’t have a high opinion of himself. He felt like the most backward of men and among the last capable of saving Israel from the Midianites. What he had in his favor was a willingness to follow the directions of the Lord and do things that seemed hard or unusual. When the people asked…
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Judges 6 – 7
I had entirely forgotten that Gideon threw down the altar of Baal before he gathered the army and defeated the Midianites. That was probably the act that made him known so that people might be willing to follow him. Neither Gideon nor the men in his too-large army knew what method of drinking would be…
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14 October 2010
Judges 21Was it really a good idea to have the men of Benjamin, whose tribe (other than themselves) were destroyed by Israel, marry the virgins of Jabesh-gilead, whose city (other than themselves) was destroyed by Israel? When there were not enough girls the people told the men of Benjamin to catch girls from Shiloh and…
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13 October 2010
Judges 20It amazes me that the tribe of Benjamin would fight rather than deliver the guilty men up to the restof the people of Israel. This was soon enough after their deliverance from Egypt that the grandson of Aaron was still the high priest for Israel. The people of Israel prayed for instruction and were…
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12 October 2010
Judges 19The Ephriamite man knew how wicked the city was and that it would not be safe for someone to lodge in the street. It is disturbing to me to read that these men of Gibeah, of the tribe of Benjamin, were similar in wickedness to the men of Sodom in the days of Abraham…
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11 October 2010
Judges 17 – 18Although he dwelt among the Israelites in mount Ephriam I’m not sure that Micah was an Israelite himself. Whether he was or not he thought it valuable to have a Levite priest in his house. I’m confident now that Micah was not an Israelite. The Levite priest that he had obviously was…
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10 October 2010
Judges 15 – 16It sounds like Sampson was a judge in Israel for twenty tears after killing the thousand Philistines with the jawbone before he slept with the harlot and then took up with Delilah. It amazesme that anyone could fall for the “do you love me” line that Delilah gave Sampson after she had…
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9 October 2010
JudgJudgesThere scriptures say these actions by Sampson were of the Lord but either we do not have the full story here or else I think I would be more accurate to say that the Lord made use of all that Sampson did but often did not guide him to do much of what is told…
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8 October 2010
Judges 12 – 13It seems to me that the righteousness of a people can accurately be judged by watching for an abundance of petty grievances escalating to serious conflicts internally. It amazes me how much the Lord reaches out and assists a people that so easily turns aside and is so spiritually immature. The parents…