Life-Study of Judges

Message: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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I. Joshua being the book of Israel’s history full of marvelous victories and judges being the book of Israel’s history full of miserable defeats
II. The writer
III. The time
IV. The place
V. The content
VI. The central thought
VII. The sections

The Beautiful Scene of Israel's Trusting in God _{Message 2}

I. Judah’s boldness and victory
A. Inquiring of Jehovah and Jehovah’s answer and promise
B. Judah and Simeon His brother’s coordination
C. Judah going up, and Jehovah giving the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand
D. Caleb’s victory over Hebron through his son-in-law Othniel
E. Judah fighting, with Simeon his brother, and utterly destroying the Canaanites
F. The children of Benjamin not dispossessing the Jebusites
II. The house of Joseph going up to fight against Bethel
III. Some defects
A. Manasseh, Ephraim, Zebulun, Asher, and Naphtali not dispossessing the Canaanites
B. The Amorites pushing the children of Dan into the hill country

The Miserable History of Israel's Forsaking of God - Chapters 2—16 (1) _{Message 3}

I. The admonition of the Angel of Jehovah
A. Reminding Israel
B. Warning Israel
C. Israel’s reaction to the words of the Angel of Jehovah
II. The reason for Israel’s forsaking of God
A. Because of the death of Joshua, of the elders, and of the generation who saw all the great work of Jehovah that he had done for Israel
B. Because the present generation did not know Jehovah or the work that he had done for Israel
III. The cycle of the miserable history of Israel’s forsaking of God
A. Israel’s forsaking of Jehovah and turning to the idols of the Canaanites
B. Jehovah’s anger burning against Israel
C. Israel’s groaning and Jehovah’s pity on them in raising up judges to save them from the hand of their enemies
D. After the death of the judge, Israel turning and acting more corruptly by following after other gods
E. The anger of Jehovah burning again against Israel
IV. Jehovah’s testing of Israel
A. By the nations who were left after Joshua’s death
B. By Israel’s failure

The Miserable History of Israel's Forsaking of God - Chapters 2—16 (2) _{Message 4}

The first three cycles of the miserable history of Israel
I. The first cycle
A. Israel’s evil in forsaking Jehovah
B. Jehovah’s anger burning against Israel
C. Jehovah selling Israel into the hand of the king of Mesopotamia
D. Israel crying out to Jehovah
E. Jehovah raising up a savior
F. The land having rest forty years
II. The second cycle
A. Othniel, the judge, dying
B. Israel again doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah
C. Jehovah strengthening Eglon king of Moab against Israel
D. Israel serving Eglon king of Moab eighteen years
E. Israel crying to Jehovah, and Jehovah raising up a savior for them
F. Ehud killing Eglon king of Moab and defeating the Moabites
G. Moab being subdued by Israel, and the land having rest eighty years
H. Shamgar the son of Anath also saving Israel
III. The third cycle
A. Israel again doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah after Ehud died
B. Jehovah selling Israel into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan
C. Israel crying out to Jehovah
D. Deborah, a prophetess, being raised up as a judge of Israel
E. Deborah, with Barak and the children of Naphtali and Zebulun, defeating Jabin king of Canaan
F. Sisera, the captain of King Jabin’s army, being killed by Jael
G. God subduing Jabin king of Canaan before the children of Israel
H. The song of Deborah and Barak
1. Celebrating Triumphantly their victory over Jabin king of Canaan
2. Appreciating the leaders of Israel who took the lead and the people of Israel who willingly offered themselves
3. Praising the stars that fought with Sisera from heaven, from their courses
4. Praising the Angel of Jehovah, Christ, who took care of their battle
5. Blessing Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite
6. Mocking ironically the imagination of the mother of Sisera concerning her son’s good fortune
7. Blessing Israel
I. The land having rest forty years

The Miserable History of Israel's Forsaking of God - Chapters 2—16 (3) _{Message 5}

The fourth cycle of Israel’s miserable history
IV. The fourth cycle
A. Israel again doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah
B. Jehovah delivering Israel into the hand of Midian for seven years
C. The children of Israel crying out to Jehovah because of Midian
D. Jehovah sending a prophet to reprove the children of Israel
1. Reminding them of Jehovah’s delivering them from Egypt and His giving to them the land of Canaan
2. Charging them not to fear the gods of the Amorites
E. The Angel of Jehovah (Christ) calling Gideon
1. Appearing to Him
2. Charging him to save Israel from the hand of Midian
3. Performing a sign for him by receiving His offering
F. Jehovah charging Gideon to tear down the altar of Baal that belonged to his father
1. Gideon doing it by ten men at night
2. The men of the city contending for Baal
3. Gideon being called Jerubbaal because of this
G. All the Midianites, Amalekites, and the children of the east gathering together to encamp in the valley of Jezreel, and the Spirit of Jehovah clothing Gideon
H. Gideon asking God for signs to water a fleece of wool and to dry it
I. The three hundred chosen by God to follow Gideon to defeat Midian for Israel
J. The defeat of Midian
1. By Gideon hearing the account of a dream in the camp of Midian
2. By the three hundred men of Gideon divided into three companies blowing the trumpets and shattering the pitchers
3. By Jehovah setting each man’s sword against his companion
4. By the men of Israel pursuing after the Midianites
5. The two princes of Midian being slain
K. The complaint of Ephraim and Gideon’s pacification
L. The despising and insulting of the men of Succoth and Penuel toward Gideon
M. Gideon further pursuing the Midian camps
N. Gideon’s dealing with the men of Israel
1. Not willing to rule over them
2. Asking them for their spoils of gold and purple garments
3. Making an ephod with gold and placing it in his city
4. Midian being subdued by Israel, and the land of Israel having rest forty years
O. Gideon’s family and his decease
1. Gideon having seventy sons by many wives
2. Gideon dying at a good age

The Miserable History of Israel's Forsaking of God - Chapters 2—16 (4) _{Message 6}

The fifth cycle of Israel’s miserable history
I. The fifth cycle
A. Israel turning again and going as harlots after the Baalim
B. Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, Gideon, slaying his brothers
C. The men of Shechem and all the house of Millo making Abimelech king at Shechem
D. Jotham protesting against Abimelech
E. Abimelech ruling over Israel three years
F. God sending an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem for the punishment over Abimelech and the men of Shechem
G. The men of Shechem dealing treacherously with Abimelech
H. Zebul the ruler of the city helping Abimelech to defeat Gaal and the men of Shechem
I. God repaying the evil of Abimelech and all the evil of the men of Shechem
J. Tola rising up to save Israel

The Miserable History of Israel's Forsaking of God - Chapters 2—16 (5) _{Message 7}

The sixth cycle of Israel’s miserable history
VI. The sixth cycle
A. Israel again doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah
B. The anger of Jehovah burning against Israel
C. Israel crying out to Jehovah
D. Jehovah’s rebuking of Israel
E. Jehovah being unable to bear Israel’s misery
F. The pressure of the Ammonites and the need of a head over Israel to take the lead to fight against the Ammonites
G. The rising up of Jephthah
H. Jephthah’s negotiation with the king of the Ammonites
I. Jehovah’s Spirit coming upon Jephthah, and Jehovah delivering the Ammonites into His hand
J. Jephthah defeating the Ammonites
K. Jephthah making a vow to Jehovah
L. The Ephraimites quarreling with Jephthah, and Jephthah fighting against them
M. Jephthah judging Israel six years

The Miserable History of Israel's Forsaking of God - Chapters 2—16 (6) _{Message 8}
The Stinking Story of Israel's Corruption Before God - Chapters 17—21 (1) _{Message 9}

The Abominable Chaos in Their Worship
I. Micah setting up a house of gods in his home
A. Taking eleven hundred pieces of silver from his mother
B. Micah’s mother uttering a curse
C. Micah confessing that he stole the silver
D. Micah returning the silver to his mother
E. Micah setting up a house of gods and making an ephod and teraphim and consecrating one of his sons to become his priest
F. There being no king in Israel, and everyone doing that which was right in his own eyes
II. Micah consecrating a Levite to be his house priest
A. The Levite being a young man from Bethlehem in Judah
B. Micah asking this young man to stay with Him
C. The Levite being content to stay with Micah like one of his sons
D. Micah consecrating the Levite to be his priest in his house
III. The Danites robbing Micah of his sculptured idol, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image with his priest
A. The tribe of the Danites seeking for themselves an inheritance to dwell in
B. The children of Dan sending five men to spy out the land and search it out
C. The five men asking the Levite to inquire of God that they might know if their way would be prosperous
D. The priest ordained by Micah telling the five men to go in peace
E. The five men coming to Laish and seeing the life of the people
F. Six hundred men setting out from the family of Dan and coming to the house of Micah
G. The five men who had gone to spy the land of Laish speaking to the Levite concerning his being a priest for a tribe and family in Israel
H. The young priest taking the ephod, the teraphim, and the sculptured idol and going into the midst of the people
I. The Danites coming to Laish and slaying the people
J. The children of Dan erecting the sculptured idol

The Stinking Story of Israel's Corruption Before God - Chapters 17—21 (2) _{Message 10}

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