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  • Biblical Principle #131: Moses Established Judges for Israel

    Biblical Principles List Principle Moses appointed judges to help oversee Israel’s concerns during the exodus. Explanation Moses was burdened with the judging of concerns brought to him by Israelites. Seeing this, Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, suggested that Moses appoint other reliable men to serve subsets of Israel as judges. Moses heeded this advice. 13 So it…

  • March 18 – Deborah and Barak

    Reading Judg. 4:1-5:31 Devotional After Ehud, the second Israelite leader (called a judge) died, the Israelites once again did evil, so GOD gave them over to twenty years of oppression under Jabin, king of Hazor, a Canaanite. The commander of Jabin’s army was Sisera. They had 900 chariots of iron and treated the Israelites cruelly.…

  • 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 21 – Don’t be Quick to Promise

    Reading Judg. 10:1-12:12 Devotional After Gideon’s son Abimelech died, Tola and then Jair led Israel as judges for a period of time. Then the Israelites reverted back to their evil ways and GOD sent the Ammonites to oppress them. After 18 years they cried out to GOD but this time GOD’s response was different than…

  • March 23 – Be Careful Who You Trust

    Reading Judg. 13:1-16:31 Devotional Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of GOD, so He gave them over to be ruled by the Philistines forty years. Then GOD raised up Samson, the strong man, to oppress the Philistines in return. Samson was a Nazarite, which meant that he could not shave his head…

  • March 24 – Sincerity Alone isn’t Enough

    Reading Judg. 17:1-18:31 Devotional In the days of the Judges there was a man named Micah of the tribe of Ephraim who made an idol and a shrine in his home to that idol. He then hired a young Levite to live in his home and be a priest for his family. Micah treated the…

  • March 25 – Civil War in Israel

    Reading Judg. 19:1-21:25 Devotional There was a certain Levite who had a concubine (a woman that is like a wife, but with lesser status in the home) who was unfaithful to him, leaving him and returning to her parents’ home. The Levite went to her parents’ home to persuade her to return home with him.…