Holy Book of Judges

Larry the Cat,

Next Generation take control

The first Kingdom of Israel, the Tribe of Ephraim was a part of a loose confederation of Israelite tribes. No central government existed, and in times of crisis the people were led by ad hoc leaders known as Judges.

Deuteronomy was always, already Moses.

In verse 19 the first signs of failure creep in with the iron chariots proving too scary for them and the Jebusites proving too much for Benjamin. 1:222 Compromises help pagans.

Read Judges 1 – 21 (the whole book)

1. What do you think the structure of the book is? Map out the major units below, and try to include all the judges:

2. What other parts of the Bible do you think will be important for properly understanding Judges? Why?

3. How does the New Testament apply parts of Judges in Hebrews 11:3233, 3940?

4. In Judges, do God and his people act in ways that are consistent with their characters as revealed in the New Testament? Give examples if you can.

5. What good examples and bad examples are there for us to follow in this book?

JUDGES 1:1 – 2:5

1. Where are we on the Bible timeline? What has just happened? (You may want to consult Joshua 21:4345 and Joshua 24:1924 to get a quick picture of what has gone before).

2. What are the people doing in Judges 1:17?

3. Look up Leviticus 18:630 (especially verses 2425), and Deuteronomy 9:45 and 18:914.

Why is God helping the Israelites to conquer Canaan?

4. Describe the military situation in the land by the end of chapter 1. Who is in control? What is Israel’s relationship to the people of the land?

5. What is God’s view of Israel’s success rate in Judges 2:15?

6. In view of Deuteronomy 7:1726 why is God angry?

JUDGES 1:1 – 2:5 Study 

The purpose of this section is to expose the people’s disobedient lack of faith in only partially conquering the Promised Land and explain why God allowed pagan nations to retain control of parts of it. 

How work things out?

1:17 The Conquest Continues. We begin with death of Joshua, leader of the people since the death of Moses. Thus a new era opens. The people begin well by consulting the Lord. Judah begins well by allying with his brother Simeon (later, more than once the tribes fight or get at each other, i.e., 5:1517; 20:148). 

They defeat the Canaanites and Perizzites and even Adoni Bezek recognises God’s hand of justice in their actions when they repay him for cutting off the thumbs and toes of kings, he himself had subjugated. According to the Book of Genesis, God destroyed the langues Tower of Babel because the people building it were getting too powerful. He made them all speak different languages so that they would find it more difficult to collaborate

This is part of Israel’s task: to rid the land of its sinful inhabitants, as God’s emissaries. Not because they are so righteous themselves (Deuteronomy 9:45), but because these Amorites and Canaanite tribes are so wicked (Genesis 15:16, Leviticus 18:630 (esp. v. 2425), Deut 18:914).

So, they are not just taking the land as a gift to them from God but executing justice on his behalf too. 1:810 Judah marches on Jerusalem. The mention of Jerusalem is important because it later becomes the capital city under David (2 Samuel 5:610) and, much later, a picture of what the new creation will be like (Revelation 21). 

A few miles below, the Wādy Farah , whose head is at Sychar between Mts. Ebal and Gerizim, descends from the West, furnishing the natural route for Jacob's entrance to the promised land. Yet although the city is captured (v.8) the Jebusites who lived there were not driven out (v.21) by the tribe of Benjamin who had evidently allied themselves to Judah too.  The mighty descendens of Anak who caused such fear in the previous generation of Israelites (Numbers 13, esp. vv.22, 28) are defeated. 

1:1115 Next Generation take control

This story has another allusion to later events in that it involves Othniel, who will become the first of the Judges (Judges 3:711). Here he is linked to the great man of faith, Caleb (Numbers 13:30, 14:30 and Joshua 1:4 15) whose daughter is the first of several shrewd and important women in this book (e.g., Deborah, Jael, and Delilah). 

1:1621 Judah and Friends have mixed success. Moses’ brother-in-law, Hobab, went with the people when they set off into the wilderness (Number 10:2932). Now his father in law’s tribe (the Kenites, though he is also sometimes called a Midianite) join with Judah and settle with them.

They will play a part in the story in chapter 4 (4:11) which is probably why they are mentioned here alongside these other short allusions to previous and later events. Later they are shown mercy, despite living with the Amalekites, enemies of Israel (1 Samuel 15). Judah continues its victorious march, conquering the Philistines in the ‘Gaza strip’ (Gaza, Ashkelon, Ekron) which will be significant enemy cities in later stories (6:4, 16:1, 21; 14:19). 

In verse 19 the first signs of failure creep in with the iron chariots proving too scary for them and the Jebusites proving too much for Benjamin. 1:222 Compromises help pagans. 

The tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim (Joseph’s sons) make a deal with a man from Luz which enables them to capture the city and rename it Bethel, but they also allow him to go on to find a new pagan city elsewhere called Luz. One small act of disobedience which has large ramifications (Joshua 7:10 26).

1:2736 Partition and uneasy peace, not conquest. We are then told more briefly how the Northern tribes also failed to completely drive out the Canaanite inhabitants of the land. Worse than that, they came to accommodations with them, either subduing them into forced labour (verses 28, 30, 33, 35) despite being “strong” (v. 28), living among them side by side (verses 29, 3132), or being pushed back by them (verse 34). 

At the end of the chapter, Israel are clearly the dominant power in the land of Canaan, occupying the majority of it and in control of much. But it is also, in a sense, partitioned between Israel and various surviving Canaanite nations. 

2:15 God’s anger at their lack of faith. The Angel of the Lord now tells us God’s perspective on the events of chapter 1. Rather than being simply military failures, the defeats and accommodations of chapter 1 are a result of not obeying God’s voice.

Even if they struggled at first without success, they were to continue bit by bit (Deut 7:22) and God would give them victory. This is part of the covenant God had made with them, which they had broken by making covenants (deals and accommodations) with the surviving nations, particularly by not destroying their pagan altars.

God therefore invokes a covenant curse if they have broken the deal, he no longer has to keep his side and so he will leave these nations in Canaan as a thorn in Israel’s side. This upsets the people: they cry and sacrifice to God. Tellingly, there is no explicit mention of them repenting though by, say, taking up the fight against the Canaanites again or tearing down their altars to false gods.

The Further Application

1. God is a covenant keeping God, faithful to his words of promise and of judgement. Rejoice, and fear!

2. God called not just for Israel to judge the Canaanite nations but also to drive them out in order to be separate from and independent of them. We are not called to exterminate unbelievers (our situation in redemption history is somewhat different!) but we are still called to be different from them (e.g. Ephesians 4:1724;2 Corinthians 6:147:1). How and why do we fail to do that today? What is the warning here if we continue along that path?

3. God’s people, even at their keenest like Judah, do not always completely trust in God’s promises and can too easily fail to obey him to the uttermost when faced with difficulties (like iron chariots). Do we settle for less than full obedience because it would be too much effort? Or because we’re content to look better than others? Heb 3:1215.

4. God’s people, like the House of Joseph or the Northern tribes, can often be too ready to compromise (with their sin or with other people’s expectations), for the sake of an easy life. Keeping a sin under a certain amount of control is not the same as wiping it out altogether; yet simply accepting it or allowing its ongoing influence and power to continue unchecked is equally disobedient, when God has promised to enable us to defeat it if we obey. 

5. In what ways do our unrepented of sins become thorns in our sides (2:3)?  Perhaps compare this idea with Paul’s teaching in Romans 1:18 O32. Is see. 

What do you see?

JUDGES 2:6 – 3:6 Q & M + W.

1. This section starts again from the death of Joshua (as in 1:1). What does this section add to the picture we’ve already been given in 1:12: 5

2. What is so ominous about 2:10? How did it happen?

3. What is described in 2:1113?

4. Should God’s reaction in 2:1415 be a surprise? (see Deuteronomy 28 especially verse 25 and Leviticus 26 verses 17 and 37)

5. Why are the people not just scattered, exiled, or completely destroyed by God (read 2:1619)

6.  Why did God leave the Canaanite nations as a thorn in Israel’s side?

7. What is the progression of sin in Judges 3:56? How might such a progression be seen in our lives as Christians in the Church?

The purpose of this section is to give an overview of the whole Judges period from a spiritual perspective. It emphasises how God acts in justice to enforce the covenant curses on the people’s repeated disobedience, and how he acts in grace to save them from their oppressors, giving them an opportunity to repent and obey him again. 

How it works out?

2:610 Dropping the baton 

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Search for a saviour
Samson’s strength
Judges 13–16 1.

What sort of a man is Samson?

Nazirite (13:4–5, 16:17, Numbers 6) 

Women (14:1–3; 16:1, 4)
Wine (14:5, 1o) Unclean things (14:6–9, Genesis 3:6; 14:19; 15:4–5) 

Strong but weak 

Miraculous strength (14:4–6, 16:2–3 etc) 

Extraordinary weakness (14:7–20, 16:4–19) 

Selfish saviour 

“…he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” (13:5) It’s all about “me” (15:16, 18, 19; 16:1–3, 28–30) 

Samson is the saviour who suits us 2. What sort of a God is the LORD? The Saviour who uses sinners 

The secret to Israel’s strength; The LORD is the Saviour we need 

Beginnings 13 

Sees a woman 14:1–3 Feat of strength 14:4–6 (lion) 16:2–3 (gate) Woman betrays Samson’s secret 16:1 14:7–20 (the riddle) Philistine conflict leaves Samson bound 15:1–13 16:4–19 (the hair) 16:20–21 15:14–19 (salvation) Defeating Philistines, calling on the LORD 16:22–30 (revenge) 

Conclusion: “a thousand years” 15:20 16:31 

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The narrator returns to the death of Joshua (see 1:1), to retell the story, not from a Militar political angle but from a spiritual perspective. Verses 79 are a repeat of Joshua 24:2931 but they also neatly fit into the pattern established in this chapter (cf. verses 1819). 

Deuteronomy was Moses’ attempt to address the generation entering the land who had not known the events of the exodus; verse 10 here shows that for some reason that sermon fell on deaf ears because, ominously, the succeeding generation did not know the Lord or what he had done. 

No reason is given – was it the parents fault for not instructing the next generation perhaps, disobeying Deut 6:49? Or was it the fault of the children, who enjoyed the Promised Land but closed their ears and forgot the Lord who gave it (Deut 6:1012)? 2:1 11 5.

Unverfälscht und ursprünglich aufrichtig begann ich, mir Fragen zu stellen. Ave Maria com as 9 Frequências Solfeggio e energia de amor e cura da Div. Über die Rückkehr von Gott, unserem Allah, der zur Rechenschaft gezogen wurde. Mr. Pendletons Haus in der Nähe von Deer Creek. My name is Bernd Joseph, my Lord. 

Apostasy and Judgment

Israel turned away from God and served other gods. The incident in Numbers 25 should have taught them the dangers of this. Twice we are told of their abandoning the Lord and of the Lord’s anger. 

Not only does God leave the nations as a thorn in Israel’s side (as in 2:3) but now he is said to give Israel over into their hands. Indeed, it should have come as no surprise that the Lord was against them in their sin, as this fulfils the terms of the covenant (e.g. Deut 28, esp. verse 25; Lev 26, esp. verses 17 and 37). 2:1619 God’s pity and patience and their ingratitude. The people deserved God’s anger and the covenant curse of defeat. 

They did not deserve the grace of the Lord, who was moved to pity by their distress and acted to save them from the consequences of his own righteous covenant justice. In justice he gave them into the hands of the plunderers; in mercy he saved them from the plunderers by sending judges. 

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