Tag: Gideon

  • March 19 – Gideon: Fearful to Faithful

    Reading Judg. 6:1-8:3 Devotional After the forty years of peace which followed Deborah and Barak’s triumph over Jabin, the Israelites once again did evil. (This was the fourth time the Bible records the Israelites’ return to idolatry following Joshua’s death.) GOD gave the Israelites over to the Midianites, and for seven years the Midianites oppressed…

  • March 20 – What Goes Around Comes Around

    Reading Judg. 8:4-9:57 Devotional Gideon had many wives and they bore him seventy sons. He also had a concubine (a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives) who bore him a son named Abimelech. As soon as Gideon died the Israelites did evil again before GOD and they also…