In this book we will find Israel falling and getting back up as it seems just to fall again. 2. They allowed the defeated people to remain in the land (1:21) 3. The house of Joseph (Manasseh and Ephraim) settle the central portion of the land, but allowed some of of the original inhabitants to remain (1:22-30) 4. Asher, Zebulun, and Nephtali settle the northern portion
of the promised land, but allow some of the captive people to remain (1:30-36)
2. Condition of the tribes during the life and until the passing of Joshua’s generation (2:6-10) 3. The second generation did evil and worshipped idols (2:11-13) Note: Joshua 24:20-24 4. God’s anger against Israel (2:14-15) Psalms 106:40-43 5. Though angry with Israel, God raised up judges to deliver them (2:16) 6. Israel would not learn but continued to worship other gods (2:17-19) There is and this was one of a time when God overlooked and forgave the ignorance of idolotry Acts 17:22-31 7. Canaanites left in the land to prove Israel (2:20 to
3:7) tie this thought to 3:7-8
B. Judge Ehud and the Moabite invasion (3:12-30)
2. Eglon, the Moabite king, was a very fat man (3:17) 3. Ehud stabbed Eglon with a dagger (3:22-23)
D. Judge Deborah, a prophetess (4:1 to 5:31)
2. Deborah tells Barak to head up an army of 10,000 men from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun to defeat "Sisera the captain of Jabin’s army" (4:4-9) b. She agrees to go but says Sisera will be delivered into the hands of a woman (4:9) 4. Victory song of Deborah and Barak (5:1-31) Notice5:2
- When the people offer themselves of their own
free will then there are rewards
Psalms 18:46-47,
II Timothy 3:10-12, and I
John 5:4.
2. A prophet sent to rebuke the rebellious people (6:7-10) 3. Gideon commissioned by an angel to lead Israel (6:11-24) 4. The altar of Baal and its grove destroyed by Gideon (6:25-32) 5. An army called together under Gideon (6:33-35) 6. The miracle of the fleece (6:34-40) 7. Gideon’s great army reduced from 32,000 to 300 men (7:1-8) 8. Gideon gains a great victory (7:9 to 8:21)
b. Succoth and Penuel destoryed (8:4-17) c. Execution of Zebah and Zalmuna, kings of Midian and
Amalek (8:18-23)
10. Israel in confusion turns again from God (8:33-35)
Psalms
78:1-11
2. Jotham rebukes the people with his parable of the trees (9:7-21) 3. Abimelech defeats Shechem (9:22-49) 4. Abimelech is killed at Thebez (9:50-57)
H. Judge Jair, a Gileadite (10:3-5) I. Judge Jephthah (10:6 to 12:7)
2. Israel subdued by the Philisitines (10:7-8) 3. Amon joined the Philistines in discomfiting Israel (10:9) 4. Israel cries to God for deliverance (10:10-14) God is a consuming fire Hebrews 12:28-29, and there is a price to pay for sin Numbers 32:23 5. Invasion of Ammon (10:15-18) 6. Jephthah rejected by the men of Gilead (11:1-3) 7. Jephthah called to deliver Gilead from the Ammonites (11:4-11) 8. Jephthah reasons with the King of Ammon but is rebuffed (11:12-28) 9. Jephthah defeats Ammon (11:29)
b. Jephthah’s sacrifice of his daughter (11:34-40)
b. Ephraimites unable to say "Sibboleth" (12:5-6) c. Death of Jephthah (12:7) K. Judge Elon (12:11-12) L. Judge Abdon (12:13-15) M. Judge Samson (13:1 to 16:31)
2. Angel appears to the wife of a man named Manoah and promises she will bear a son who is to be a Nazarite (13:2-7) 3. Angel reappears to Manoah and his wife and confirms the promise (13:8-14) 4. Manoah’s sacrifice (13:15-23) 5. Samson is born (13:24-25) 6. Samson desires a Philistine wife (14:1-4)
b. Samson finds honey in the carcass of the lion (14:8-9) c. Samson’s marriage feast (14:10-11) d. Samson’s riddle of the lion and honey (14:12-18) e. Samson pays his debt at the expense of the 30 men of Ashkelon (14:19) f. Samson’s Philistine wife given to his best man (14:20)
8. Samson kills 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (15:9-19) 9. Samson judges Israel 20 years (15:20) 10. Samson carries away the gates of Gaza (16:1-3) 11. Samson and Delilah, a Philistine woman (16:4-20) Pride and ignorance Proverbs 8:13; 16:18; 29:23 12. Samson’s death in which he kills more Philistines
than in his life (16:21-31)
2. Micah used silver to make idols and made his son priest (17:4-6) 3. A wandering Levite hired to replace Micah’s son as priest (17:7-13) 4. Five men from the tribe of Dan sent to find new territory (18:1-2) 5. The five men lodge with Micah and inquire by his priest (18:3-6) 6. The five man discover Laish in the territory of Naphtali (18:7) 7. The five spies recommend taking Laish in Naphtali (18:8-12) 8. They come again to the house of Micah in Ephraim and entice his priest to go with them and steal his idols (18:13-21) 9. Micah pursues them to recover his property but fails to do so (18:22-26) 10. Danites capture Laish and change its name to Dan (18:27-29) 11. Danites worship Micah’s idol god (18:30-31) 2. Levite spends the night in Gibeah of Benjamin (19:11-21) 3. Abuse and death of the Levite’s wife (concubine) (19:22-28) 4. Levite cuts wife’s dead body into 12 pieces and sends a piece to each of the 12 tribes (19:29-30) 5. The tribes of Israel rise up as one against the tribe of Benjamin and kill all Benjaminites, except 600 who hid themselves (20:1-30) 2. Stratagem for providing wives for Benjamin’s 600 survivors
(21:8-24)
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