07_Judges

Judges – Introduction & Background
Judges 1 – Incomplete Conquest; War for Jerusalem; The Failure of Many Tribes
Judges 2 – Imitating the Enemy; Obeying the Enemy; The Death of Joshua; Introduction to the Cycles of Apostasy and Deliverance
Judges 3 – Unconquered Canaanite Nations; Cycles 1-3: Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar
Judges 4 – Cycle 4: Barak & Deborah; Sisera Defeated, Killed
Judges 5 – Song of Deborah; The State of Israel Before Deborah’s Judgeship
Judges 6 – Cycle 5: Gideon; Destruction of the Altar of Baal; Gideon’s Fleece
Judges 7 – God’s Severe Defense Cutbacks; Gideon Attacks Midian With 300 Soldiers
Judges 8 – Complaint of Ephraim; Capture & Execution of Midianite Kings; Gideon’s Ephod; Abimelech
Judges 9 – Abimelech’s Political Career: Seizing the Kingdom, Defending the Kingdom, Losing the Kingdom
Judges 10 – The Judgeship of Tola; The Judgeship of Jair; Cycle 6: Jephthah
Judges 11 – Cycle 6: Jephthah; Jephthah’s Four Arguments; Jephthah’s Vow; God Delivers the Ammonites
Judges 12 – Jephthah Slaughters the Ephraimites; The Judgeships of Ibzan, Elon & Abdon
Judges 13 – Cycle 7: Samson; Philistine Oppression; Angel of the Lord; The Birth of Samson
Judges 14 – Samson Finds a Philistine Wife; Samson’s Kills a Lion; The Wedding and the Riddle
Judges 15 – Samson Burns the Philistine Harvest; Battle of Lehi; Samson Kills 1,000 Philistines with a Jawbone
Judges 16 – Samson and the Gates of Gaza; Samson Meets Delilah; Capture, Imprisonment & Death of Samson
Judges 17 – Confusion in the Home; Confusion in the Ministry
Judges 18 – Confusion in Society; Migration of Dan; Birth of Idolatry in Dan
Judges 19 – The Levite & His Concubine; Sin of Gibeah
Judges 20 – The Levite Explains the Crime; Call to Arms; Holy War Against Benjamin
Judges 21 – Consequences of the Israelite Oath at Mizpeh; Destruction of Jabesh-Gilead; Wives for 600 Surviving Benjamites; No King in Israel