Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. < Judges 8:21 | > Judges 8:23 Reflection Judges 8:22 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention […]
Judges
he book of Judges is a historical account of Israel during the period between Joshua and the monarchy, highlighting cycles of rebellion, oppression, repentance, and deliverance. It tells the stories of God raising leaders—called judges—who delivered His people from their enemies and guided them back to faithfulness. Judges illustrates both the consequences of turning from God and the power of His mercy when the people repent.
Judges emphasizes God’s sovereignty, faithfulness, and patience. Despite Israel’s repeated disobedience, God raises deliverers to protect and restore His people. The book shows that leadership, courage, and reliance on God are essential in times of moral and social chaos.
This book challenges believers to recognize the dangers of turning from God, the importance of faithful leadership, and the necessity of obedience and trust. Judges also demonstrates that God’s mercy and guidance are available even in times of failure and uncertainty.
Explore the book of Judges to learn from Israel’s history, understand God’s justice and mercy, and see how He works through faithful leaders to fulfill His purposes.
Judges 8:23
And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you. < Judges 8:22 | > Judges 8:24 Reflection Judges 8:23 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for […]
Judges 8:24
And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) < Judges 8:23 | > Judges 8:25 Reflection Judges 8:24 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws […]
Judges 8:25
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. < Judges 8:24 | > Judges 8:26 Reflection Judges 8:25 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for […]
Judges 8:26
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks. < Judges 8:25 | > Judges 8:27 Reflection Judges 8:26 sits within […]
Judges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house. < Judges 8:26 | > Judges 8:28 Reflection Judges 8:27 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture […]
Judges 8:28
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon. < Judges 8:27 | > Judges 8:29 Reflection Judges 8:28 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to […]
Judges 8:29
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. < Judges 8:28 | > Judges 8:30 Reflection Judges 8:29 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]
Judges 8:3
God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. < Judges 8:2 | > Judges 8:4 Reflection Judges 8:3 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where […]
Judges 8:30
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. < Judges 8:29 | > Judges 8:31 Reflection Judges 8:30 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. This verse may be brief, but […]
Judges 8:31
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. < Judges 8:30 | > Judges 8:32 Reflection Judges 8:31 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. This verse may be […]
Judges 8:32
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. < Judges 8:31 | > Judges 8:33 Reflection Judges 8:32 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and […]
Judges 8:33
And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god. < Judges 8:32 | > Judges 8:34 Reflection Judges 8:33 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, […]
Judges 8:34
And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: < Judges 8:33 | > Judges 8:35 Reflection Judges 8:34 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the […]
Judges 8:35
Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel. < Judges 8:34 | > Judges 9:1 Reflection Judges 8:35 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. […]
Judges 8:4
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. < Judges 8:3 | > Judges 8:5 Reflection Judges 8:4 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. […]
Judges 8:5
And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. < Judges 8:4 | > Judges 8:6 Reflection Judges 8:5 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where […]
Judges 8:6
And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? < Judges 8:5 | > Judges 8:7 Reflection Judges 8:6 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need […]
Judges 8:7
And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers. < Judges 8:6 | > Judges 8:8 Reflection Judges 8:7 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, […]
Judges 8:8
And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him. < Judges 8:7 | > Judges 8:9 Reflection Judges 8:8 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and […]
Judges 8:9
And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower. < Judges 8:8 | > Judges 8:10 Reflection Judges 8:9 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. […]
Judges 9:1
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying, < Judges 8:35 | > Judges 9:2 Reflection Judges 9:1 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, […]
Judges 9:10
And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us. < Judges 9:9 | > Judges 9:11 Reflection Judges 9:10 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. This verse may be brief, but its words […]
Judges 9:11
But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? < Judges 9:10 | > Judges 9:12 Reflection Judges 9:11 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for […]
Judges 9:12
Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. < Judges 9:11 | > Judges 9:13 Reflection Judges 9:12 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]
Judges 9:13
And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? < Judges 9:12 | > Judges 9:14 Reflection Judges 9:13 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for […]
Judges 9:14
Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. < Judges 9:13 | > Judges 9:15 Reflection Judges 9:14 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. This verse may be brief, but its words […]
Judges 9:15
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. < Judges 9:14 | > Judges 9:16 Reflection Judges 9:15 sits within Judges, the […]
Judges 9:16
Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands; < Judges 9:15 | > Judges 9:17 Reflection Judges 9:16 sits within Judges, the record of […]
Judges 9:17
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: < Judges 9:16 | > Judges 9:18 Reflection Judges 9:17 sits within Judges, the record of Israel’s cycles, where Scripture often draws attention to sin, mercy, deliverance, and the need for faithful leadership. This verse […]