What is Judges about?

What is Judges about?

(Joshua)

Isarel enters the promised land and gets stuck in a cycle of rebellion (Judges 1-2)

  • Incomplete conquest of Canaan (Judges 1)
  • The cycle of rebellion and deliverance (Judges 2)
  • No king in Israel and everyone did right in his own eyes.

Judges/Deliverers (Judges 3-16)

  • Othniel (Judges 3:7-11) Judah
  • Ehud (Judges 3:12-30) Benjamin
  • Shamgar (Judges 3:31) Naphtali – Judges 1:33
  • Deborah and Barak (Judges 4-5) Naphtali
  • Gideon (Judges 6-8) Manasseh
  • Abimelech’s Rebellion (Judges 9)
  • Tola and Jair (Judges 10:1-5) Ephraim and Gilead
  • Jephthah (Judges 10:6-12:7) Gilead
  • Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon (Judges 12:8-15) Judah, Zebulon, Ephraim
  • Samson (Judges 13-16) Dan

Micah’s idolatry and the Danites’ conquest (Judges 17-18)

Levite’s Concubine and War Between Benjamin and the Other Tribes (Judges 19-21)

What is Judges about?