This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter twenty-one concludes both the story of Benjamin’s near demise and the book of Judges. The writer included a new detail about the meeting at Mizpah a few days earlier. In addition to swearing that they would kill the perpetrators of the crime against the …
This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter eighteen continues the story of Micah and his hired Levite. At this point in Israel’s history, the tribe of Dan had been run out of their allotted territory by the Amorites, but they had not yet settled elsewhere (Judges 1:34; Joshua 19:40-48). Verse one …
This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter seventeen begins the first of the last two stories in Judges. No date is given for this narrative, only that “Israel had no king” (Judges 17:6). However, the abject moral depravity displayed may indicate that this was later in the historical timeline, although the …
