30 March 2020, Chronological Bible Reading, Judges 3 to 5.
My wife, Lori, and I are reading through the Bible in chronological order, which is the order in which the events happened. Her blog on this can be found here. This is not intended to be a lesson or a sermon. It is my thoughts and notes as I read through the text and as I sometimes look things up. Today we read Judges 3 to 5.
Judges 3
God had left some tribal nations in the promised land to test whether Israel would obey God. But the sons of Israel had intermarried with the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth. So God gave them into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
When the sons of Israel cried to the Lord, He raised up a deliverer, Othniel Caleb’s younger brother. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Othniel, and he judged Israel. The Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim into his hand in war. Then the land had rest forty years. Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord. God gave them into the hands of Eglon the king of Moab, the sons of Ammon and Amalek in war. Israel served Elgon eighteen years.
When the sons of Israel cried to the Lord, He raised up Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, to deliver them. Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. He hid a sword on his right though under his cloak. After giving him the tribute, he told him he had a secret message. Once he was alone with the king, he killed him. Ehud escaped and led the sons of Israel in battle against about ten thousand Moabites and destroyed them. The land was undisturbed for eighty years. After him, Shamgar the son of Anath, saved Israel by killing six hundred Philistines.
Judges 4
After Ehud died, Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, who then sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan for twenty years. The sons of Israel cried to the Lord. Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at the time. She said to Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, that God had commanded he take ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun and go into battle against Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army and God would deliver them into his hand. But he would only go if Deborah went. She went. Israel won, but Sisera ran away to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite (who were related to Moses’ father in law). She convinced him to come into her tent. And when he fell asleep, she drove a tent peg through his temple into the ground and killed him. When Barak showed up in pursuit of Sisera, Jael showed him Sisera’s corpse. Israel destroyed the Jabin the king of Canaan.
Judges 5
Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang a song on that day about what God, Deborah, Barak, Jael, and Israel had done. And the land was undisturbed for forty years.
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