Ruth Vows to Stay with Naomi Scripture: Ruth 1 (NIV) 1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab...
Samson and Delilah Scripture: Judges 16 (NIV) 1 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her. 2 The people of Gaza were told, “Samson is here!” So they surrounded the place and...
The Birth of Samson Scripture: Judges 14-15 (NIV) 1 Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. 2 When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her...
Jephthah Makes Deadly Vow Scripture: Judges 11 (NIV) 1 Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. 2 Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove...
Gideon Delivers Israel with 300 Men Scripture: Judges 7 (NIV) 1 Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. 2...
Gideon, Warrior in a Winepress Scripture: Judges 6 (NIV) 1 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2 Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites...
Deborah Delivers Israel from Jabin Scripture: Judges 4 (NIV) 1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead. 2 So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the...
The Cycle of Sin Scripture: Judges 2:6-23 (NIV) 6 After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance. 7 The people served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the...
The Covenant Renewed & Death of Joshua Scripture: Joshua 24 (NIV) 1 Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God. 2...
The Sun Stands Still Scripture: Joshua 10:1-15 (NIV) 1 Now Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and totally destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon...
