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Judges 8
Most of us only know Gideon for the trumpets and torches. What followed that battle is less familiar. The camp of Midian is in utter confusion with Gideon and his men blowing their trumpets and shouting. 😲🥷⛺️🎺🔥😬😱⚔️🫣🗡️😡🥷😵💫🎺🫨😧 Some of the enemy soldiers flee. Some turn and fight one another. There were, after all, 3 different…
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Judges 7
If you grew up going to Sunday School and VBS, I guarantee you’ve made some kind of trumpets, torches, and pitchers craft. Here are some particularly fun ones I found online. 🤓 Anyhoos… My point is – we all know the WHAT of this story VERY well. We know that God pared down the army.…
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Judges 6
Deborah and Barak have now died. 🪦🥀🪦 And Israel has forgotten that Yahweh is their God. They’ve taken up Baal and Asherah worship and the Lord has allowed them to be overrun by the cruel Midianites. There is a fascinating thing that happens in this setting. Yahweh sends an unnamed prophet to remind Israel that…
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Judges 4-5
I’m going to vary from the reading schedule just a wee bit. The schedule had just chapter 4 today, but since chapter 5 is the Song of Deborah and chapter 6 starts the Gideon narrative, I’m going to cover 4-5 together. The Jewish Historian, Josephus, gives us one little tidbit of backstory that helps. He…
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Judges 2-3
These 2 chapters cover roughly the first 120 years of Israel settled in the land. And it’s not going well. As long as Joshua and the men who fought in hand-to-hand combat with the giant clans were alive – the men who had seen God provide manna and miracles – Israel stayed faithful to Yahweh.…
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Judges 1
The book of Judges opens with some detail on events that were outlined in Joshua 15-19. And note that these opening chapters are not strictly chronological with Joshua. If they were, we have Joshua dying 3 separate times in Joshua 24:30, Judges 1:1, and 2:8. He didn’t die 3 times. ☠️☠️☠️ He died once. And…
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Joshua 23-24
And just like that, we’re at the end of Joshua. And the events of these chapters take place in Shechem and Shiloh. Let’s pause for just a moment to remember the history of Shechem. So- TONS of major history here. THIS is where Joshua summons the leaders and all the people for his parting message.…
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Joshua 22
If I was to give this chapter a heading, it might be: A Questionable Memorial Causes a Kerfuffle There 5 things that stand out to me in this. THING ONE Look how loyal the men of Reuben, Gad, and Eastern Manasseh are! They’ve been away from their wives and children for probably at least a…
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Joshua 20-21
The Levites are the last to receive their inheritance which consisted of 48 designated towns, each with surrounding pasturelands. 🐏🐑🐏🐑🐏🐑🐏🐑 A couple of the towns stand out particularly. Just think of all these Levite families. For 40 years they have had specific jobs. They had designated parts of the Tabernacle to load, carry, and set…
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Joshua 19
Joshua, Eleazar, and the tribal elders cast lost for the allotments of land for the remaining tribes. 🎲🎲 Judah’s portion was so big that Simeon was given 17 cities, (and the villages around them), within Judah’s territory. Judah’s inheritance was so great that they needed a partner to help take possession of it. That is…
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Joshua 17-18
Ephraim & 1/2 Mannaseh: We need more space! Joshua: You’re capable. Go make your own space. E & M: But that requires work! This kinda reminds me of when my brothers were “growing boys” (i.e. hungry teenagers). They’d look into packed cupboards and fridge then shut the door and declare, “There’s nothing to eat in…
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Joshua 15-16
In the middle of extensive lists of the borders and towns of Judah (which we will come back to in a second), we get the rest of Caleb’s story. Y’all probably realize by now that I love happy endings, 🥰 and this is a fantastic ending that also happens to be the beginning of another…
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