Tag: Judges

Judges 11The charge by the king of the children of Ammon reminds me of the strife between the Israelis and the Palestinians today. It sounds like the constant complaint by the Lamanites against the Nephites. I think the answer of Japhthah puts the grievance in perspective – they had waited 300 years to air their…

Judges 10It would seem very oppressive to me to have to seven host of gods as Israel chose to do.

Judges 9I see now why the people did not honor the family of Gideon. The son of his concubine conspired to be made king and killed all the other sons of Gideon. After three years he destroyed the people of the city wherewith he had conspired to be made king and as he went to…

Judges 8Gideon promises to repay those who would not help him before all the leaders of Midian were subdued. At this time their remain 15,000 in the Midianite army after 120,000 had been slain. Had Gideon defeated them with an army of 32,000 it would have been miraculous but the people might have thought it…

JudMusterEd should not attribute any dishonor to the 22,000 who admitted their fear and left when invited to do so. Likewise we should not think less of the 9700 who were dismissed. Had it been only 300 who knelt to drink the water it would have been those who scooped and drank who were dismissed.…

Judges 6The children of Israel spent time enough hiding like bandits from the Midianites that they built up defensive caves in the mountains as places of resort (something like Tora Bora in Afghanistan). I wonder if the altar of Baal and the grove belonged to Gideon’s father of if they were just located on his…

Judges 4 – 5I wonder if the Lord delivered Sisera into the hand of Jael rather than the hand of Barak because he said he would only go up if Deborah would go with him or if the Lord would have done things that way even if he had been willing to go alone.

Judges 3Quite the history here. The people were brought into servitude for eight years and then were delivered. They had peace for fourth years until the man who led them in their battle for deliverance died then they returned to wickedness and were brought into bondage for another sixteen years before they prayed and were…

Judges 2I knew the Israelites were not very good at remembering but I did not realize that they served Baalim so quickly after Joshua died. I am amazed that the Lord never gave up on them. Perhaps it is only that this first part of the book of Judges seems to be an overview of…

Judges 1There are many places where the Israelites chose to take tribute rather than take the land to themselves. It should be no wonder then that they kept falling back to the idolatries of the people they allowed to remain among them. They never cleansed the land, they were satisfied to make a place for…