Bible Book Studies · Intermediate · ABOUT 165 MINUTES
Learn from Israel’s repeated cycles of compromise, oppression, deliverance, flawed leaders, and moral collapse
Primary passage: Judges 2:18
Read Judges 2:18 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on the cycle begins and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
Primary passage: Judges 6:14
Read Judges 6:14 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on gideon and fear and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
Primary passage: Judges 16:20
Read Judges 16:20 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on samson and misused strength and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
Primary passage: Judges 21:25
Read Judges 21:25 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on when everyone does what is right in their own eyes and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
