Eglon gathered the support of the Ammonites and Amalekites and together they captured the Israelite city of Jericho. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
Then things get pretty graphic:. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it. The servants saw Ehud and assumed the meeting was over, and since the door was locked from within, they assumed the king was using the bathroom which, in a manner of speaking, he was. With the king dead, the Israelites launched a surprise attack, killed 10, soldiers, and conquered Moab. Moab became subject to Israel, and there was peace for 80 years.
You know, until Ehud died. He too saved Israel. An oxgoad is essentially an ancient cattle prod, an eight foot wooden rod with a metal spike on the end. OK so it was basically a spear, but saying he killed Philistines with a cattle prod sounds way more impressive, right?
Some have suggested that Judges was added much later, possibly reconciling Judges with an oral tradition. Deborah Deborah was both a prophetess and judge. Deborah was the only female judge. With his commander Sisera and an army of chariots, he oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, and they finally cried to the Lord for help.
Deborah was leading the Israelites, and she summoned Barak son of Abinoam to command the Israelite army, telling him God would give Sisera and his army into his hand.
Barak said he would only go if Deborah went with him, and Deborah prophesied:. But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman. After the victory, Deborah wrote a song celebrating what God had done and honoring the Israelites who played a role in defeating the Canaanites. Gideon is one of the most well-known and important leaders from the Book of Judges.
There are more verses dedicated to him than any other judge. The Israelites who worshipped Baal wanted to kill Gideon, but his father Joash told them to let Baal defend himself, because his altar was torn down. Am I not sending you? Gideon resisted, suggesting that he was too insignificant to save Israel and then asking for a sign.
The angel of the Lord touched his staff to some meat and bread, and it caught fire. Then the angel of the Lord disappeared. It was the first of many times that Gideon asked God for a sign and received one. He was afraid, so he did it at night. Both names are used throughout Judges. In the morning, the ground was dry, and the fleece was full of dew.
But Gideon was still hesitant, so he tested God again:. Understandably, Gideon was afraid, so God told him to sneak into the camp and listen to what the troops were saying.
There he found a man who was telling his friend about a dream :. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands. This gave Gideon the confidence he needed to execute his battle plan. Then God caused the Midianite soldiers to turn on each other, and they fled. But as a favor, Gideon asked them all to give him one of their gold rings, and he had them melted down and made into an ephod—a garment used in oracle-related rituals.
Before Gideon even died, the Israelites had already gone astray again. While Gideon lived, the Israelites enjoyed forty more years of peace. And when he died, they abandoned his family and returned to worshiping Baal. He was from the tribe of Issachar, and his grandfather was a man named Dodo. When Tola died, he was buried in Shamir. When Tola came onto the scene, Israel was a mess. He died fighting against his own people.
He gets just two verses Judges —2. But there are some additional details we can glean from the names mentioned here. He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair. When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon. Since he was a Gileadite, scholars believe Jair was likely a descendant of a much older Jair: Jair, son of Manasseh.
Jephthah was a mighty warrior and the son of a prostitute. We read about Jephthah in Judges —, and while he delivered Israel from its enemies, his story ends in one of the most unforgettable tragedies in Scripture—a tragedy of his own making. They worshiped the Baals, Ashtorahs, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines.
But not their own God. But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you. Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble! And he built an altar there to the LORD. Judges They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways. Deborah also went up with him. Exodus Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?
The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. The difficult cases they brought to Moses, but the simple ones they decided themselves.
Sandra Hamer Smith. Emma Danzey. How Long Should a Pastor Preach? Clarence L. Jephthah was the Judge who fought against the Ammonites and before the battle he promised God that he would sacrifice the first thing he saw on his return home if he was victorious.
What was the first thing he saw when he returned after winning the battle? His mother. His son. His wife. His daughter. Jephthah's only daughter came rushing to meet him on his return. Jephthah loved his daughter and gave her two more months of life, but still he kept his vow to God.
Judges "And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year". Samson was a strong man and Judge of the Israelites. How did he get his strength? God gave him his strength through never cutting his nails.
God gave him his strength through never eating meat. God gave him his strength through never cutting his hair. God gave him his strength through never eating fish. Samson was a Nazarite, which meant that he had vowed to God never to drink alcohol, never to touch a corpse and never to cut his hair.
If he broke his vow his strength would fail. Samson was to be a Nazarite from the moment of his birth, as an angel of God told his parents: Judges "But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death". Samson fell in love with a woman from the valley of Sorek. She betrayed Samson to his enemies, but what was her name?
Delilah discovered the source of Samson's strength and sold this secret to the Philistines. Judges "And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand. And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him".
After they had shaved him, the Philistines blinded Samson and put him in chains. Samson prayed to God for his strength to return and God granted this request. What did Samson do with his renewed strength? He killed the king of the Philistines. He killed all of the Philistines. He killed himself and all the Philistines around him. He broke free of his chains and escaped. Samson pushed with all of his might against the pillars which supported the Philistine hall and the building fell down, killing everyone inside.
Judges "And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life".
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