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🗓️ 31 March 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.3 | You may have already entered to win our free trip to Israel, but we've added some exciting |
0:17.2 | new prizes to the contest, so stick around for the end of the episode to find out how you |
0:21.4 | could win. |
0:23.4 | Today we wrap up the introduction to the Book of Judges and God tells us that he has left |
0:27.6 | a handful of Canaanite leaders in the land as a test for the Israelites. |
0:31.9 | Today we also get to meet the first four judges, all of whom are pretty good by comparison |
0:36.2 | to the others we'll read about. |
0:38.6 | Early on we find out that Israel has forgotten God and are worshipping Baal and the Osteroth, |
0:43.4 | and God takes credit for selling them into slavery, just like he warned them he would do |
0:47.3 | when this happened. |
0:49.1 | After eight years they finally cry out to God and he raises up the first judge to save |
0:53.5 | them. |
0:54.5 | And remember that the judges were talking about here are more like military commanders and |
0:58.2 | civil leaders than someone who sits in a courtroom with a gattle. |
1:02.0 | The first judge is Othnale, whom you may remember as Caleb's nephew slash son-in-law. |
1:07.1 | The text says God's spirit was upon him and he gave him victory. |
1:11.1 | Then they had peace for 40 years, but then the Israelites decide they prefer sin over |
1:15.7 | peace and they rebel again. |
1:17.6 | So God strengthens their enemy against them, King Eglond of Moab. |
1:21.8 | He gathered some allies and they attacked Israel and take back Jericho, which was Israel's |
1:26.1 | first conquest in the Promised Land. |
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