Moses delivered the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage and led them almost to the Promised Land (via the LORD of course). Then Joshua completed Moses’ work by bringing them into the Promise Land. Then Joshua led the conquest against all the nations that occupied the land; killing everyone in their path. Now with Moses and Joshua gone, the period of the Judges begins. This was a time when Israel was governed by a series of very colorful judges as you will see. Then the period of the Judges comes to an end when Saul is anointed as the first king of Israel.
JUDAH AND SIMEON So the book of Judges starts right off with killing. God tells Judah to go up and fight the Canaanites and Judah in turn asks his brother Simeon to come along. They killed 10,000 men but the strange thing is that when one fled named Adonibezek and they caught him then cut off his thumbs and big toes! They brought him to Jerusalem where he died.
OTHNIEL, EHUD AND SHAMGAR In chapter 3 we read that because the children of …show more content…
Abimelech wants to be King of Israel so he kills all seventy of his father’s other sons and he rules Israel for three years. There is an uprising by some in Shechem over Abimelech but in the end Abimelech herds the people of Shechem into fields where all of the people are killed. Then when he heard that some of the leading me of Shechem were hiding in the temple of Baal, he burned it down, burning alive about a thousand men and women. Then when Abimelech goes to a strong tower where people have locked themselves in for protection he intends to burn them alive inside the tower but a woman on top of the tower drops a millstone down on Abimelech’s head and cracked his skull. Abimelech doesn’t want to be remembered as having been killed by a woman so he has his attendant run him through with his sword. The first attendant-assisted suicide in the Bible—but there will be
JUDAH AND SIMEON So the book of Judges starts right off with killing. God tells Judah to go up and fight the Canaanites and Judah in turn asks his brother Simeon to come along. They killed 10,000 men but the strange thing is that when one fled named Adonibezek and they caught him then cut off his thumbs and big toes! They brought him to Jerusalem where he died.
OTHNIEL, EHUD AND SHAMGAR In chapter 3 we read that because the children of …show more content…
Abimelech wants to be King of Israel so he kills all seventy of his father’s other sons and he rules Israel for three years. There is an uprising by some in Shechem over Abimelech but in the end Abimelech herds the people of Shechem into fields where all of the people are killed. Then when he heard that some of the leading me of Shechem were hiding in the temple of Baal, he burned it down, burning alive about a thousand men and women. Then when Abimelech goes to a strong tower where people have locked themselves in for protection he intends to burn them alive inside the tower but a woman on top of the tower drops a millstone down on Abimelech’s head and cracked his skull. Abimelech doesn’t want to be remembered as having been killed by a woman so he has his attendant run him through with his sword. The first attendant-assisted suicide in the Bible—but there will be