Archives for April 2022

“Avimelekh the son of Yeruba‘al went to Sh’khem, to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with the whole clan of his maternal grandfather. He said, ‘Please ask all the men of Sh’khem, ‘Which is better for you — that all seventy sons of Yeruba‘al rule over you, or that one person rule over you? […]

Following on the heels of yesterday’s conversation, let’s take stock of where we’re at. So the situation is that one of Gideon’s sons called Avimelech who was the product of Gideon’s union with a Canaanite concubine was making an appeal to the city of Shechem to be their ruler because as he put it… …”Which […]

Today we begin Judges Chapter 9. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click HERE. For the King James Version, click HERE. “…and now you are rebelling against my father’s household. You’ve killed his seventy sons on a single stone and made Avimelekh, the son of his slave-girl, king over the men of Sh’khem, because he’s your […]

Alrighty, let’s get on with the third golden nugget to be learned from Gideon’s story. It is this: Anyone who accepts a leadership role in the Kingdom of God is going to be tempted to abandon that position. And what makes matters worse is that very temptation may come from fellow brothers and sisters inside […]

Alrighty, so we’re mining the text of Judges Chapter 8 to dig out the golden nuggets contained in the story of Gideon. Yesterday we discussed the first nugget which was that when the Lord stands with Israel, no force in the universe can stand against them. So let’s get into the second golden nugget. It is […]