#Ruth 4
#Boaz and 10 elders of the city met with Ruth’s potential #redeemer. Boaz told him that Naomi was selling her land and it included Ruth’s redemption. The man turned down the offer. Boaz then bought the land, married Ruth, and they had a son, #Obed, future grandfather of king #David. (v1-22)
#Ruth 3
Naomi told Ruth that Boaz would work the threshing floor at night and that she should go in secret and, once he lay down to sleep, uncover his feet and lie down. #Boaz was startled to awake with Ruth laying at his feet. He #blessed her and promised to #redeem her if no one else did. (v1-18)
#Ruth 2
Ruth gleaned in a field of Boaz. #Boaz gave Ruth his #blessing and protection to glean his fields, and they enjoyed a meal. (v1-23)
Boaz to Ruth, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law…has been fully told to me…a full reward be given you by the #LORD, the #God of #Israel…” (v11-12)
#Ruth 1
Elimelech, #Naomi, and their 2 sons sojourned from #Judah to #Moab. Elimelech died. The sons married Moabite wives, Orpah and Ruth. Then the sons died. (v1-5)
Naomi urged Orpah and Ruth to go and start new lives. Orpah left, but Ruth stayed with Naomi as she returned to #Bethlehem. (v6-22)
#Judges 21
“Now the men of #Israel had sworn at Mizpah, ‘No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.’” (v1)
Wives were to be given to the tribe of Benjamin, but not from the main tribes. From Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins, and from Shiloh an unknown number of daughters. (v2-25)
#Judges 20
Then 400,000 men of #Israel prepared for war against Benjamin. They demanded the guilty men of Gibeah be given up for execution, but #Benjamin refused and prepared for war. Benjamin was winning at first. Israel sought #God, pretended to retreat, ambushed #Gibeah, and won the war. (v1-48)
#Judges 19
A Levite’s concubine ran away. They reunited, were traveling home, and stopped at night in #Gibeah. Men of Gibeah tried to sexually abuse the Levite, but instead sexually abused his concubine to death. The #Levite then cut her into 12 pieces and sent her to each tribe in #Israel. (v1-30)
#Judges 18
“…the #tribe of the people of #Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no #inheritance among the tribes of #Israel had fallen to them…(Dan) took what #Micah had made and the #priest… they came to Laish…and struck them…and burned the city with #fire.” (v1,27)
#Judges 17
A man named #Micah restored 1,100 silver pieces to his mother after she had them stolen. She then dedicated the #silver to the #LORD but also wanted two silver idols to be made. Micah made a #shrine for the crafted #idols. Then, a young, sojourning #Levite came to stay with them. (v1-13)
#Judges 16
#Samson loved Delilah. The Philistines asked her about his #strength. Samson told her his strength would leave if his head was shaved. (v4-17)
#Delilah shaved his head and he was captured. #God returned Samson’s strength to collapse a building and kill 3,000 people and himself. (v18-31)
#Judges 15
#Samson caught 300 foxes, tied and torched their tails, and released them to burn the Philistine’s grain and orchards. (v4-5)
Samson was bound and taken to the Philistines. The #Spirit of the #Lord came upon him, he broke his bonds, and killed 1,000 men with a donkey’s #jawbone. (v9-17)
#Judges 14
#Samson told his parents he was to marry a Philistine but didn’t say he’d use it against the Philistines. (v1-4)
Samson killed a #lion and later found #honey in the carcass. He bet the Philistine wedding guests couldn’t solve a riddle about it and killed them after they cheated. (v5-19)
#Judges 13
“ #Israel again did what was evil…so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines…” (v1)
Manoah’s wife was barren. The #angel of the #LORD told her she would bear a son. (v2-23)
“(She) bore a #son and called his name #Samson… the young man grew, and the LORD #blessed him.” (v24)
#Judges 12
The men of #Ephraim asked Jephthah why he didn’t call them to also fight against the Ammonites. #Jephthah and the men of #Gilead then seized Ephraim’s territory around the #Jordan river and killed 42,000 Ephraimites. (v1-7)
Brief accounts of the judges #Ibzan, #Elon, and #Abdon. (v8-15)
#Judges 11
“Jephthah…was a mighty #warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute…” (v1)
So his brothers cast him out. The Ammonites then attacked and #Jephthah was asked to lead. He led #Israel and defeated the Ammonites, but he made a rash #vow that required him to sacrifice his only child. (v2-40)
#Judges 10
#Tola judged Israel 23 years, then #Jair judged Israel 22 years. (v1-5)
#Israel again did what was evil…So the anger of the #LORD was kindled against Israel…Israel cried out to the LORD, “We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our #God and have served the Baals.” (v6-7,10)
#Judges 9
Abimelech’s conspiracy. (v1-21)
“He went…and killed his brothers…seventy men…And all the leaders of Shechem came together…and made Abimelech king…” (v5-6)
Abimelech’s #downfall. (v22-57)
“A certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.” (v53)
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#Judges 8
#Israel to Gideon, “Rule over us…for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.” Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you…the #LORD will rule over you.” (v22-23)
“Gideon…died in a good old age…As soon as #Gideon died…Israel turned again and whored after the Baals…” (v32-33)
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#Judges 7
The #LORD to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest #Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has #saved me.’ (v2)
#God chose 300 men for Gideon to lead into battle. (v3-8)
#Gideon and his 300 men defeated the Midianites. (v19-25)
#Judges 6
“Israel did what was #evil in the sight of the LORD, and the #LORD gave them into the hand of Midian…When the people of #Israel cried out to the LORD…the LORD sent a #prophet…” (v1,7-8)
The angel of the LORD to #Gideon, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel…do not I send you?” (v14)
#Judges 5
Then sang #Deborah and #Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:
“That the leaders took the lead in #Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the LORD! Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the #LORD I will sing; I will make melody to the LORD, the #God of Israel.” (v1-3)
#Judges 4
The #people of #Israel sinned and fell to the king of #Canaan and Sisera, commander of his army. (v1-3)
#Deborah prophesied of #Barak and the tribes of #Naphtali and #Zebulun defeating Sisera’s army. (v4-10)
#Sisera lost, fled, and was killed by a tent peg driven into his head. (v12-24)
#Judges 3
“Now these are the #nations that the #LORD left…in order that the #generations of the people of #Israel might know #war… They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would #obey the #commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of #Moses.” (v1-2,4)
#Judges 2
The #angel of the LORD rebuked Israel for their disobedience. (v1-5)
“Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the #LORD, died at the age of 110 years.” (v8)
#Israel was unfaithful to God and served other gods, so their land was plundered. (v11-15)
The LORD #God raised up judges. (v16-23)
#Judges 1
After the death of #Joshua, the people of #Israel inquired of the LORD, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?” The #LORD said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.” (v1-2)
#Judah and his men defeat the Canaanites. (v3-26)
#Joshua 24
Joshua to the people of #Israel, “Choose this day whom you will serve…But as for me and my house, we will serve the #LORD.” (v15)
The people to Joshua, “The LORD our #God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.” So Joshua made a #covenant with the people that day…at Shechem. (v24-25)
#Joshua 23
Joshua to #Israel, “I am now old and well advanced in years. And you have seen all that the #LORD your #God has done to all these #nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has #fought for you.” (v2-3)
“Be very #careful, therefore, to #love the LORD your God.” (v11)
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#Joshua 22
The eastern tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe Manasseh return home. (v1-9)
Joshua, “The #LORD your #God has given rest to your brothers…go to your tents in the land where your possession lies…on the other side of the Jordan.” (v4)
The eastern tribes’ altar of #witness. (v10-34)
#Joshua 21
Cities and pasturelands allotted to #Levi. (v1-42)
“Thus the #LORD gave to Israel all the land that He #swore to give to their fathers…they took possession of it…Not one word of all the good #promises that the LORD had made to the house of #Israel had failed; all came to pass.” (v43,45)
#Joshua 20
Then the #LORD said to Joshua, “Say to the people of #Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of #refuge, of which I spoke to you through #Moses, that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.’” (v1-3)
