Judges
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Session 1 · Judges 1–5
The work is left unfinished, and the cycle begins.
- After Joshua's death Judah and Simeon fight, Adoni-bezek is repaid in kind, and many Canaanite cities are left in place.
- The angel of the LORD speaks at Bochim, the people weep, and a generation arises that does not know the LORD or his works.
- Othniel, moved by the Spirit, delivers Israel from Cushan-rishathaim, and Ehud and Shamgar strike Moab and the Philistines.
- Deborah sends Barak against Sisera's iron chariots, and Jael kills the commander in her tent with a peg.
- Deborah and Barak sing of the Kishon, the stars, the curse on Meroz, and Jael, and the land rests forty years.
Session 2 · Judges 6–10
Gideon refuses a crown, then builds a snare.
- The angel of the LORD calls Gideon in the winepress, fire takes the offering, and Gideon tears down his father's altar of Baal.
- The army is reduced to three hundred, a barley loaf in a dream interprets the night, and Midian breaks under trumpets and torches.
- Gideon punishes Succoth and Penuel, refuses to rule, and makes an ephod at Ophrah that becomes a snare to his house.
- Abimelech murders his seventy brothers, Jotham's fable of the bramble comes true, and a millstone from Thebez ends him.
- Tola and Jair judge, Israel serves the gods of the nations, and the LORD, grieved by their misery, says to cry to the gods they chose.
Session 3 · Judges 11–15
A rash vow, a Nazirite, and strength that is not holiness.
- Jephthah the outcast is made head over Gilead, argues Israel's history to Ammon, and vows to offer whatever first comes out of his house.
- His daughter meets him with tambourines, Ephraim falls at the fords over the word Shibboleth, and Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon judge briefly.
- The angel of the LORD tells Manoah's barren wife that her son will be a Nazirite from the womb and will begin to save Israel from the Philistines.
- Samson takes a Philistine wife, tears a lion, loses his riddle, and kills thirty men at Ashkelon to pay the wager with their garments.
- Foxes and torches burn the Philistine grain, and with a donkey's jawbone Samson kills a thousand and drinks at En-hakkore.
Session 4 · Judges 16–20
A shaved Nazirite, a hired priest, and Gibeah.
- Delilah learns the secret of Samson's hair, the LORD leaves him, the Philistines blind him, and he dies pulling down the house of Dagon.
- Micah of Ephraim makes a shrine from stolen silver, ordains his son, and hires a Levite, sure the LORD will prosper him because he owns a priest.
- Spies of Dan take Micah's gods and his Levite, destroy quiet Laish, and set up the carved image while the house of God is at Shiloh.
- A Levite's concubine is raped to death through the night at Gibeah, and he cuts her body into twelve pieces and sends them through Israel.
- Israel inquires, loses two battles against Benjamin, then nearly destroys the tribe, leaving six hundred men at the rock of Rimmon.
Session 5 · Judges 21
Oaths, abducted wives, and no king in Israel.
- Israel weeps that Benjamin is nearly gone, strikes Jabesh-gilead, and tells the survivors to seize wives from the dancers at the feast in Shiloh.