Judges/Ruth

Main Idea: The Israelites fell into a cycle of sin, oppression, crying out, and deliverance throughout the period of the judges.

Texts to Consider:

Judges 2:6–3:6

What happened when Joshua died?

What is the cycle of how things go in Judges?

List of Judges

Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon (Abimelech),

Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, Samson

The depiction of the judges is one of __________________ morality.

Then the last four chapters…

Culminating in the last sentence of the book…

“In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”

But mention of a king throws us into the book of Ruth