Judges: Failure

Prologue: Military failure, 1:1-3:6	History of the Judges, 3:7-16:31	Epilogue: Moral failure, 17-21
Incomplete conquest, 1:1-2:5	Othniel, Ehud & Shamgar, 3	Micah & Danites, 17-18
Israel’s disobedience,  2:6-3:6	Deborah & Barak, 4-5	A Levite, his concubine & the Benjamites, 19-21
	Gideon & Abimelech, 6-9
	Tola & Jair, 10:1-5
	Jephthah, 10:6-12:7
	Ibzan, Elon & Abdon, 12:8-15
	Samson, 13-16

Major characters

• Deborah (“bee, eloquent”)
• Gideon (“feller, cutter-down”)
• Samson (“of the sun, sun-like”)

Major themes

• Idolatry and evil leads to oppression
• Calling upon the Lord results in salvation
• Deliverer brings rest during his lifetime

Major words/phrases

• “did evil in the sight of the LORD,” 2:11; 3:7, 12; 4:1; 6:1
• “the children of Israel cried out to the LORD,” 3:9, 15; 4:3; 6:6-7; 10:10
• “the land had rest for… years,” 3:11, 30; 5:31
• “in those days there was no king in Israel,” 17:6; 21:25 (cp. 18:1; 19:1)

Christ in all the Scriptures

• Angel of the Lord, 6

History & Distinctives of the Judges

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