This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter thirteen begins the famous story of Samson, who served for twenty years. Samson is the only judge whose story is recorded from birth to death. After forty years of Philistine oppression, God visited an infertile woman from the tribe of Dan and promised her […]
This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter twelve records another sad turn of events in the wake of Israel’s victory over the Ammonites. As they had done with Gideon (chapter eight), the Ephraimites picked a fight with Jephthah, because he had not invited them to join the battle (Judges 12:1-7). He
This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter eleven tells the story of Jephthah and his battle against the Ammonites (beginning in Judges 10:17). Like Abimelech, Jephthah’s mother was a prostitute, so he did not have a good relationship with his brothers from his father’s wife (Judges 11:1-3). They kicked him out
