Judges

11/21/2025 Judges 10 NKJV: This chapter starts with two more instances of Israel needing to be saved, and the men God raised up to save and judge them. Curious that there are practically no details of what happened. I guess these events were compiled from incomplete records. You&

I read this chapter, but I have yet to make up a post for it.

11/18/2025 Judges 8 NKJV: It is hard to read this chapter and not be saddened by the corrupt heart of man. How self centered and self serving man can be when God is not in the picture. God has done great things through Gideon in routing the armies

11/17/2025 Judges 7 NKJV: This chapter starts with God selecting the 300 fighting men to accompany Gideon as God delivers the Midianites into his hand. God first releases the fearful and afraid, which turns out to be well over half, if not two thirds of them. It surprised

11/14/2025 Judges 6 NKJV: This is the next cycle of disobedience, oppression, repentance, and deliverance. This time, God delivers them into the hands of the Midianites, except it sounds like they are being bullies more than conquerors. They come in and take what they want and basically dare

11/13/2025 Judges 5 NKJV: This is the song Deborah and Barak sang after their victory to free Israel from the hands of Sisera and eventually King Jaben. I had a hard time following it all, but it sounded like they were praising God, first and foremost, and praising

11/12/2025 Judges 4 NKJV: It is sad to see that after this time of evil-doing by Israel, it took 20 years for them to cry out to the Lord. Again, they seemed to do fine while God's judge was around, but once he died, they went

11/11/2025 Judges 3 NKJV: the chapter opens with an explanation of the nation's left in the land whom God chose not to drive out, but rather use as training for those of Israel who have not tasted war, and as tests against Israel to see if

11/07/2025 Judges 2 NKJV: Obviously, this chapter, just as with chapter 1, is not written chronologically from the end of Joshua. These two chapters seem to be a blended narrative to tie the rest of Judges to Joshua which came before. Clearly, before Joshua died, the Angel of

11/06/2025 Judges 1 NKJV: The start of this book seems to be an overlap of the book of Joshua. The part telling of Caleb and his daughter seems to be lifted straight from Joshua, and many of the accounts seem to be a retelling from Joshua. The chapter