In the perspective of the book of Judges, the days of the judges has ended. Judges will not record for us anymore judges who delivered Israel. Rather, the book of Judges is going to spend its last pages teaching us…

The fifteenth chapter sounds like the end of the record of Samson’s life. Judges 15 ends that Samson judged Israel in the days of the Philistines for 20 years. But we must remember that God told Samson’s parents that their…

Isaiah has offered a wonderful invitation of life and satisfaction to those who will choose to do things that please the Lord (56:3) and find joy in worship of the Lord (56:7). God’s invitation is to stop working for the…

After Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon serve as judges for the people of Israel, the people yet again return to doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord. This is the same refrain we have seen in Judges…

In Isaiah 53 we read the prophecy of the coming Servant, the Christ, who will come and be an offering for the sins of the people. The effect of his coming will be to make his children numerous through the…

The story of the Judges continues with the degradation of morality. The first verse of Judges 11 sets up our main character for this historical narrative. Jephthah was a mighty warrior but he is the son of a prostitute. So…

Isaiah 54 described the covenant of peace that God had established through the sacrificial offering of his servant, Jesus. Through Jesus we can have peace with God and be accounted as righteous. So now an exclamation is given so that…

Judges 10 opens with the end of Abimelech. We are quickly told about two more judges. Tola judged Israel for 23 years. Though we only have two sentences devoted to Tola but that does not mean he did not help…

Isaiah 53 is well known by Christians as a text prophesying the arrival of the suffering servant. Isaiah describes what will happen to Jesus. Jesus will offer his life as a guilt offering so that many will be accounted righteous…

Once again we notice a break in the usual cycle and flow of the book of Judges. Usually we will read about the sins of the nation and the subsequent oppression from a foreign nation after the death of the…