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Book of Judges Supplemental Notes: The Book of Judges Chuck Missler © 2002 Koinonia House Inc. Audio Listing Audio Listing Judges 1 Judges 13 - 14 Introduction. Fighting the Enemy. Sparing the Enemy. Neglecting God’s The Philistines. Samson. A Child of Promise. Nazarites. Word. Judges 15 - 16 Judges 2 - 3 Samson and the Jawbone Defeat a Thousand Philistines. Delilah. Imitating the Enemy. Obeying the Enemy. The Insidious Cycle. Parallels between the Life of Samson and the Legends of Hercules. Judges 4 - 5 Judges 17 - 18 Sisera and Jael: “Nailing down the Details.” The Song of Deborah. Confusion in the Home. Confusion in the Ministry. Confusion in Society. Judges 6 - 7 Judges 19 - 20 Gideon—God’s Man in Manasseh. Gideon’s Fleece. The Levite and his Concubine. The Civil War Against the Tribe of Judges 7 - 8 Benjamin. Gideon’s Army. Winning the War but Losing the Victory. Judges 21 Judges 9 What to do with the remaining Benjamites? Finding wives for them. Abimelech’s political career: Seizing the Kingdom; Defending the King- Judges Summary dom; Losing the Kingdom. Incomplete Obedience. The Cycle of Sin. Practical Applications. Judges 10 - 11 Ruth 1-2 The Dismal Pattern Continues. Jephthah’s Four Arguments. Introduction. Ruth Stays with Naomi. Boaz: “Let her Glean.” Judges 11 - 12 Ruth 3 - 4 Jephthah’s Vow. A Resolution. Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon. The Threshing Floor. Hems. The Kinsman Redeemer. Types. Page 2 Page 3 Judges 1 But from a broader and deeper perspective, Judges is essentially the “No King” story of a deteriorating nation—and it serves as a sober warning against deterioration in our own nation, and in our own personal lives… Some Headlines: Leadership Issue “Family Feud Leaves 69 Brothers Dead!”1 The Book of Judges is the book of “no king.” [I Samuel is the book of “man’s king” (Saul). II Samuel is the book of “God’s king” (David).] “Powerful Government Leader Caught in ‘Love Nest’”2 The world today is living in the Book of Judges because there is no king “Gang Rape Leads to Victim’s Death and Dismemberment”3 in Israel. When presented with their rightful King, they exclaimed, “We have no king but Caesar (John 19:15).” “Girls At Party Kidnapped and Forced to Marry Strangers”4 Next on the agenda is “the world’s king”: the Antichrist. Then God’s “Woman Judge Says Travelers No Longer Safe on Highways”5 King will appear, defeat His enemies, and establish His kingdom. These headlines are from not supermarket tabloids! Warren Wiersbe [The Book of Ruth takes place during the period of the Judges (Ruth 1:1). opens his commentary on the Book of Judges suggesting that they It is a story of love and harvest. God’s people are living in the Book of characterize some of the events of this very book! Ruth, sharing in the harvest and waiting for the wedding.] The Most Colorful Book Whereas the Book of Joshua closes with a nation resting from war and enjoying the riches of the Promised Land, the Book of Judges sees the Frankly, you can find few books anywhere that can compete for color and nation suffering from invasion, slavery, poverty, and civil war. What intrigue. You’ll wince as you read how Ehud goes to visit the king in his happened? summer palace and slides his dagger between the king’s 5th and 6th ribs so that the flesh closes around it and the knife cannot be withdrawn… Joshua: Victory Incomplete You’ll cringe when Jael drives the tent stake through the skull of Sisera and pins him to the ground. Joshua, Moses’ successor in charge of the Conquest of Canaan, spent seven years and completed his basic mission. However, as we’ll see, You’ll bit your fingernails alongside Gideon as God introduces deep they did not completely deal with their enemies—to their dismay. military cutbacks, reducing Israel’s army from 32,000 to 300—then sends this vastly outnumbered miniature army into battle! Your heart will sink The boundary lines for the 12 tribes had been determined (Joshua 13-22), with mine when Jephthah’s daughter comes out to meet him on his return but the people had not fully claimed their inheritance by defeating and from battle, and he remembers his hasty vow to sacrifice the first person dislodging the entrenched inhabitants of the land. he meets to God—and then fulfills that dreadful vow. Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, You’ll glory with Samson as he wreaks havoc among the Philistines, but Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land wonder at his folly in allowing the Philistine temptress to worm from him to be possessed. the secret of his strength. You will undoubtedly turn with revulsion from Joshua 13:1 the story of the Benjamite perversion that marks perhaps the blackest chapter in Israel’s history. Fans of historical romance, military history, The people owned the land, but they didn’t possess all of it; therefore, soap operas, conspiracy theories, spy novels, swashbuckling adven- they couldn’t enjoy all of it. ture, or political intrigue will find it all here in the Book of Judges! Page 4 Page 5 Introduction to Judges Ashtaroth: the moon goddess of the Phoenicians; Ashtoreth of the Zidonians; Ishtar of the Accadians and Assyrians; and Astarte of the Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Greeks (Jer 44:17; 1Kgs 11:5,33; 2Kgs 23:13). She was called the “queen George Santayana of heaven” (Jer 44:25). Hegel said the same things a bit differently: 14] And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their History teaches us that man learns nothing from history. enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel enemies. 15] Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were We are living in a period similar to that described in the Book of Judges greatly distressed. since: 16] Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. There is no king in Israel. People are doing what is right in their own eyes. (“delivered”: Hebrew, “saved.”) God’s people can’t seem to work together. People are in bondage to their various enemies. 17] And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the The introduction to the entire book is best summarized in the last half way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; of Chapter 2 (2:6-9 corresponds with Joshua 24:29-31, linking the two but they did not so. books): 18] And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that 8] And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred oppressed them and vexed them. and ten years old. 19] And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted 9] And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. (Timnath Heres: called elsewhere, Timnath Serah.) 20] And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, 10] And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose and have not hearkened unto my voice; another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works 21] I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which which he had done for Israel. Joshua left when he died: 11] And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 22] That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. Baalim (Plural of Baal): name for many variations of pagan worship, but 23] Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; principally the “god of storms” (often, Mars); that’s why Elijah chal- neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. lenged the priests of Baal for rain. (“...left”: or suffered; permitted.) 12] And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were So indeed, it was the worst of times. Instead of spiritual fervor, Israel sank round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD into apathy. Instead of obeying the Lord, the people moved into to anger. apostasy. Instead of enjoying law and order, the land was filled with 13] And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
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