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This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapters six through eight tell the stories surrounding Gideon’s rule. After Deborah’s forty years of peace, Israel turned from God again. This time he used the Midianites to punish them. Judges 6:1-10 describe a situation of nearly complete famine in Israel. Not only did the […]
This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter five records the anthem that Deborah and Barak sang after their victory over the Canaanites in chapter four. Judges 5:2 is a sort of summary verse of the song, repeated at the end of the first stanza: “When the people answered the call to
This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter four tells the story of Deborah and Barak and their defeat of Sisera and the Canaanites. There is nothing in the text that tells when Deborah became a judge or why she was chosen instead of a man, like the other judges. Given her
