Let’s get our bearings here for a sec. So Gideon has successfully executed the first stage of his campaign to rid the Promised Land of the Midianites and Amalekites who came during the harvest season to steal Israel’s food supplies. Understand these invaders didn’t necessarily come because they had some kind of irrational hatred for […]

Gideon is one of the most important sections in the whole book of Judges. We’ve studied how God called this man who came from one of the poorest families in Israel and how in the beginning Gideon tested God. We saw how God in turn tested him back and then how with scarce military resources […]

“Now Zevach and Tzalmuna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all that remained of the entire army of the people from the east; since 120,000 arms-bearing soldiers had fallen.”-Judges 8:10 Let’s talk for a second about the names of the two Midianite leaders Gideon was chasing down. The Scripture calls them Zevah […]

“In Sukkot he asked the people there, ‘Please give some loaves of bread to the men following me, because they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zevach and Tzalmuna the kings of Midyan.’But the chiefs of Sukkot said, ‘You haven’t captured Zevach and Tzalmuna yet, so why should we give bread to your army?’Gid‘on said: […]

“By now Gid‘on and his three hundred men had come to the Yarden and crossed over. They were exhausted but were still pursuing the enemy.”-Judges 8:4 In verse 4 of Judges Chapter 8, we’re told that although Gideon and his men were still in a state of exhaustion, they continued to pursue the enemy. The […]