The Chapter-A-Day thread. (3)

[quietbloke]

I look forward to it too....there's Deborah in here, i think, and Eli (i can't remember) but i was surprised to read that Deborah was a judge. I can't remember where i read it though...

Yes Deb was a prophet and judge

 

[brinny]

Yes Deb was a prophet and judge

Was she in the book of Judges?

 

[quietbloke]

Was she in the book of Judges?

Judges 4 to 5

 

[quietbloke]

I look forward to it too....there's Deborah in here, i think, and Eli (i can't remember) but i was surprised to read that Deborah was a judge. I can't remember where i read it though...

Eli in Judges 7. We are in for a treat

 

[brinny]

Thank you!!!! I wasn't sure if they were in there or not.

I love both of those stories.

 

[brinny]

Judges 2:

The Angel of the Lord appears to the Israelites and asks them why they so abominably disobeyed the Lord God.

"And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept." ~Judges 2:1-4

 

[quietbloke]

Judges 2:

The Angel of the Lord appears to the Israelites and asks them why they so abominably disobeyed the Lord God.

"And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept." ~Judges 2:1-4

May the people of our nations weep again and turn to prayer.

 

[brinny]

May the people of our nations weep again and turn to prayer.

Amen! May there be a revival.

 

[brinny]

Judges 3:

(ok, i almost got confused hahaaa...because it's the 2nd of January....i was thinking we're on Judges 2....)

Ok, i'm back on track

Soooooooo the Israelites, yet one more time, sin against God, so God raises up the Moabite king, Eglon, against them to oppress and put them into servitude for 18 years. They cried unto God in their oppression and misery and suffering, and God HEARD them (He IS merciful and gracious, isn't He?) and God raised up Ehud, a judge. He went to king Eglon and assassinated him, and then escaped.

 

[brinny]

Judges 3:

In addition, here in verse 31 of chapter 3, God raised up another judge, a man named Shamgar, to deliver Israel from their enemies, the Philistines, who didn't have sense enough to leave the Israelites alone. (Will they EVER learn?)

"And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel." ~Judges 3:31

(Doesn't this remind ya' of Samson?)

 

[quietbloke]

Judges 3:

In addition, here in verse 31 of chapter 3, God raised up another judge, a man named Shamgar, to deliver Israel from their enemies, the Philistines, who didn't have sense enough to leave the Israelites alone. (Will they EVER learn?)

"And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel." ~Judges 3:31

(Doesn't this remind ya' of Samson?)

Yes,'brinny'.Similar to Samson

 

[brinny]

Yes,'brinny'.Similar to Samson

That's amaaaaaaazing...

 

[brinny]

Judges 3:

OK, the first Biblical judge in Israel was a man named Othniel, the son of Kenab, Caleb's younger brother. And when the Israelites cried out to God because of their oppression and suffering, God raised up Othniel to fight and defeat the enemy.

 

[brinny]

Judges 4:

God uses who He will.

This is a remarkable chapter, in that both heroes are surprisingly women.

Here we have the only woman spoken of as a judge in the Bible. It was the prophetess Deborah, the wife of Lapidoth. She was a courageous woman of God, who stationed herself under the palm tree of Deborah, which was most likely named after her. She sent for Barak the military commander in Israel, to admonish him to do as God commanded, and to defeat their enemies. He agreed to, only if she went with him.

And she did.

Another woman of note is Jael the wife of Heber. The very enemy of the Israelites, Sisera, was running from the Israelites, and she saw him, and told him to come into her tent, where she would hide him. She covered him with a mantle, and when he fell asleep, she took a tent spike and drove it into his temple as he slept.

Then, when she saw Barak, who was pursuing Sisera, she showed him where Sisrea was laying.

"So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel." ~Judges 4:23

 

[quietbloke]

Thankyou for these helpful readings and comments,'brinny'

 

[brinny]

Thankyou for these helpful readings and comments,'brinny'

Thank YOU QB. I had sorta' "stalled" with the OLd Testament, as it's very difficult to understand sometimes.

God bless you

 

[brinny]

Judges 5:

Deborah sings praises along with Barak giving praises to God for the victory.

 

[brinny]

Judges 6:

Sooooooooo Israel does evil against the living God. Again. (When WILL they EVER learn??!!!) God allows the Midianites (and the Amalekites) to oppress, steal, and tyrannize the Israelites for 7 years and to steal all their crops and oxen, etc. leaving them nothing. The Bible describes the numbers of Israel's enemies to be as numerous as "grasshoppers". It was so bad, that the Israelites fled to the mountains where they lived in dens and caves.

So Gideon, the youngest son of a farmer whose family was the weakest of his tribe, is minding his own business, threshing wheat by the wine press to hide it from his enemies, when lo and behold, under an oak tree, there appeared the Angel of the Lord, that announced himself by calling Gideon a "mighty man of valor". Now Gideon sure didn't think of himself as a "mighty man of valor", and i suspect he might have even looked around to see "who" was being spoken to, as if he was saying "Who, me?" Then he realized that the Angel of the Lord was speaking to HIM.

Is this precious, or WHAT???!!!

 

[quietbloke]

Sooooooooo Israel does evil against the living God. Again. (When WILL they EVER learn??!!!) God allows the Midianites (and the Amalekites) to oppress, steal, and tyrannize the Israelites for 7 years and to steal all their crops and oxen, etc. leaving them nothing. The Bible describes the numbers of Israel's enemies to be as numerous as "grasshoppers". It was so bad, that the Israelites fled to the mountains where they lived in dens and caves.

So Gideon, the youngest son of a farmer whose family was the weakest of his tribe, is minding his own business, threshing wheat by the wine press to hide it from his enemies, when lo and behold, under an oak tree, there appeared the Angel of the Lord, that announced himself by calling Gideon a "mighty man of valor". Now Gideon sure didn't think of himself as a "mighty man of valor", and i suspect he might have even looked around to see "who" was being spoken to, as if he was saying "Who, me?" Then he realized that the Angel of the Lord was speaking to HIM.

Is this precious, or WHAT???!!!

Precious indeed!

 

[brinny]

Precious indeed!

Gideon is one of my very fav'rite people of God. I love how patient God was with him.