The story of Samson is action packed and captivating from start to finish but a lesson on how someone can be so gifted and yet so weak in character.

Jephthah's story despite starting in a good military victory against Ammon ends in tragedy due to a rash vow he made trying to play smart with God.

The story of Abimelech is a sad one and with a very tragic ending, but the lessons are simple, the evil men do, come back to haunt them.

With just 300 men, Gideon takes on an army 135,000 men strong. What God cannot do does not exist.

The prophetess Deborah achieves great things despite the limitations a woman would have faced in her time. Also, Gideon arises from obscurity, with very little confidence in himself to lead Israel to victory against the Midianites.

A cycle begins of Israel doing evil in the sight of God, their enemies ruling over them and the Israelites crying out to God for help. Every single time, God raises a judge to save them. But as night surely follows day, the Israelites would do a reset and turn back to their idols.

The book of Judges presents the story of a very volatile and unstable period for the children of Israel. As Joshua and his generation exit the scene, the next generation quickly turned away from God to idols. Whenever this happened, the Lord would leave the people to their faith and to experience the consequences of their actions, but would eventually raise up someone, a judge, to deliver the people.

Joshua's final words to the nation is a stern warning of the danger of abandoning God to worship idols...Joshua said, "as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord"

The Levites were carefully and strategically placed to live amongst each of the tribes so they act as the moral compass for the entire nation. Today, every single one of us is a Levite.

Every tribe and clan receives their allotment of land just as God promised.