Judges

The Book of Judges tells the story of the 12 hero’s raised up to keep Israel on the straight and narrow between the time of their entry into Canaan and the arrival of Samuel the last hero judge and the anointer of David the King. After telling the stories of the Judges, the book concludes with a run of ugly incidents which phraseology and chara
cters indicate actually occurred towards the beginning of the book chronologically, these cover the creating of a silver idol, the corruption of a Levite to serve it as priest, then the capture of the idol and priest to serve the whole tribe of Dan who have been conquering territory outside of the promised land. Then a Levites concubine is gang-raped and dies by some Benjaminites, leading to civil war. Despite being out of sequence these incidents help draw the point at the conclusion of the book, that the period of the judges was a violent and relatively lawless period.

The posts below though help draw out the light of revelation hidden in their pages.

Samson – whose greatest victory was his death.

Jephthah – fulfilled vows and family tragedy!

Gideon – a fine fella’

Shamgar – turns an insult into a symbol of power.

Deborah, the first prophet in the promised land

Ehud the lefty and Eglon the hefty!

Othniel wins a bride and releases springs of water

Seven saviours in the twelve judges