The Voice

Reading Judges 21 for Friday, December 22nd. The single Benjamites had no wives, so the other tribes of Israel wanted to find them a solution.

Reading Judges 20 for Thursday, December 21st. A bloody battle is waged against the Benjamites.

Reading Judges 19 for Wednesday, December 20th. Warning: the content of this chapter contains graphic descriptions of violence and references to graphic sexual abuses. A Levite traveled through Benjamin and was threatened by a group of men in the town, and whose concubine died as a result of their actions.

Reading Judges 18 for Tuesday, December 19th. The Danites take over Laish and install the Levite as their own priest, with Micah’s idols and ephod, disappointing him.

Reading Judges 17 for Monday, December 18th. Micah stole from his mom, then returned her silver, and she had an idol and image made from part of it for him. He hired a Levite to be his priest and represent his silver house idol. He thought God would be pleased with what he did.

Reading Judges 16 for Saturday, December 16th. Samson became too confident in his strength and disobeyed his God, while flirting with his enemies.

Reading Judges 15 for Friday, December 15th. Samson burns the crops of the Philistines in revenge and is tied up by his community with rope to be delivered to them, but then escapes his ropes and kills 1,000 Philistines with a donkey’s jawbone.

Reading Judges 14 for Thursday, December 14th. Samson gets engaged to a Philistine woman, and starts the wedding week, and then leaves angrily when the answer to a riddle was coerced from his bride, so she married someone else.

Reading Judges 13 for Wednesday, December 13th. Manoah and his wife hear from the angel of the LORD that they will have a son, and they receive instructions on how to raise him as a Nazirite.

Reading Judges 12 for Tuesday, December 12th. Jephthah and his men slaughtered many Ephraimites who threatened to kill them.