By Dr. Mark Scott In the book of Judges, the judges get progressively worse as we go along. We’ve gone from Deborah and Barak (good) to Gideon (all right) to Jephthah (not stunning) and next week to Samson (terrible). The enemies of Israel in our lessons also get progressively worse, from the Canaanites to the […]
by Sam E. Stone During Gideon’s lifetime, the land of Israel had peace for 40 years (Judges 8:28), but then he died (v. 32). At that point the cycle of forgetting God and paying the price for sin began once more. “No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals” […]
by Tom Moll “Will you never learn?” I heard those words many times from my mother as I was growing up. It must have seemed to her that she warned me repeatedly and to no apparent avail about the consequences of my actions. In Judges 10, the Israelites cried to the Lord again. They told […]
