Archives for February 2022

“And I said to you: ‘I am Adonai your God; you are not to be afraid of the gods of the Emori in whose land you are living.” But you paid no attention to what I said!’”-Judges 6:10 Verse 10 of Judges Chapter 6 goes to the heart of why Israel rebelled. It’s because they […]

“When the people of Israel cried out to Adonai because of Midyan, Adonai sent a prophet to the people of Israel, who said to them: “Adonai the God of Israel says, ‘I brought you up from Egypt, out of a life of slavery.  I delivered you from the power of the Egyptians and from the power […]

“They set up camp by them and destroyed the produce of the country all the way to ‘Azah; they left nothing for people to live on, no sheep, no oxen, no donkeys.”-Judges 6:4 Verse 4 paints a dire picture of just how bad things were for Israel after the Midianite nomads got through with them. […]

“But the people of Israel did what was evil from Adonai’s perspective, so Adonai handed them over to Midyan for seven years. Midyan exercised its power harshly against Israel, and because of Midyan the people of Israel hid themselves in mountains, in caves and in other safe places.”-Judges 6:1-2 In this next cycle of the […]

“And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.” -Judges 6:1 Alrighty, let’s do a deep dive into verse 1 of Judges Chapter 6 because there’s a lot of profound theology we can extract from this one tiny phrase. Following […]