This post follows the Bible reading plan available at oaktreechurch.com/soap. Chapter seven records Gideon’s battle against the Midianites. Once he had been reassured that God was with him, Gideon was ready to take his 32,000 men to fight. However, God turned the tables on him. God told him his army was too big (Judges 7:1-8). […]
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
