Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 20 Judges 19:1-21:25 December 26, 2004 After a hiatus of several Sunday evenings we return to conclude our studies in the Book of Judges. I thought it made sense to complete this study on the last Lord’s Day evening of the year. Next Lord’s Day […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 19 Judges 17:1-18:31 December 5, 2004 We have completed the account of the judges of Israel. That account, beginning with Othniel and ending with Samson, is the main body of the book. The account of the judges themselves was preceded, if you remember, by a […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 18 Judges 16:1-31 November 28, 2004 Review We have considered the account of Samson’s birth and his divine call in chapter 13, taking note of the emphasis that falls there on the divine initiative. It is the Lord who acts to deliver his people. None […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 17 Judges 14:1-15:20 November 21, 2004 Review We have begun our consideration of the last and longest narrative of the career of a judge, that of Samson. We considered the account of his birth and calling in chapter 13 two Lord’s Day evenings back. We […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 16 Judges 13:1-25 November 7, 2004 We have come to the last narrative of a judge. The chapters that conclude the book, 17-21, are a kind of epilogue. They don’t concern the career of any judge but narrate a civil war in Israel, a civil […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 15 Judges 12:8-15 October 31, 2004 Review We have now completed the Jephthah material. We noticed, at the outset, that it was framed by accounts of minor “judges,” two men before and three after. We said then that these minor figures, about whom little is […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 14 Judges 11:12-12:7 October 24, 2004 Review We noted last time that Jephthah was chosen by the men of Gilead to lead them in battle against the marauding Ammonites because he was a proven fighter. The narrator did not, however, lead us to admire Jephthah […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 13 Judges 10:1-11:11 October 17, 2004 We have already encountered one short note concerning a man who did exploits on behalf of Israel, though we are told very little about him. That was Shamgar, to whom is devoted one verse at the end of chapter […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 12 Judges 9:1-57 October 10, 2004 Review We have completed the account of the life of Gideon, of his victories and of his subsequent spiritual failure and its consequence in the life of the nation. Chapter 9 is really something of an appendix to the […]
Audio: Download Audio Download Text STUDIES IN JUDGES No. 11 Judges 8:22-35 October 3, 2004 Review After winning an astonishing victory over an overwhelmingly larger army – a victory that was given in such a manner as to demonstrate that it was and only could have been the work and the gift of the […]