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Bible Commentaries
Scofield's Reference Notes Scofield's Notes
Angel Rebukes Israel; Cycle of Sin Begins.Chapter 3
Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar Deliver Israel.Chapter 4
Deborah and Barak Defeat Sisera.Chapter 5
Deborah and Barak's Victory Song.Chapter 6
Gideon Called to Deliver Israel from Midian.Chapter 8
Gideon's Pursuit of Kings; Israel's Temporary Peace.Chapter 9
Abimelech's Rise and Fall as King.Chapter 10
Tola and Jair Judge Israel; Israel Oppressed.Chapter 11
Jephthah's Vow and Victory Over Ammon.Chapter 12
Jephthah's Conflict with Ephraim; Ibzan, Elon, Abdon.Chapter 13
Samson's Birth Announced by an Angel.Chapter 15
Samson's Vengeance on the Philistines.Chapter 16
Samson and Delilah; Samson's Death.Chapter 17
Micah's Idolatry and Hired Levite.Chapter 18
Danites Steal Micah's Idol and Priest.Chapter 19
Levite's Concubine Abused and Murdered.Chapter 21
Wives Provided for the Surviving Benjamites.
- Judges
by C.I. Scofield
Book Introduction - Judges
Judges 1:1; Judges 1:1
This book takes its name from the thirteen men raised up to deliver Israel in the declension and disunion which followed the death of Joshua. Through these men Jehovah continued His personal government of Israel. The key-verse to the condition of Israel is (Judges 17:6), "Every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Two facts stand out--the utter failure of Israel; the persistent grace of Jehovah. In the choice of the Judges is illustrated Zechariah's great word (Zechariah 4:6), "not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord"; and Paul's word (1 Corinthians 1:25), "not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called."
The book records seven apostasies, seven servitudes to seven heathen nations, seven deliverances. The spiritual parallel is found in the history of the professing church since the Apostles, in the rise of sects and the lost sense of the unity of the one body (1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:13).
Judges is in two parts: 1-16 inclusive; key-verse, Judges 2:18. Judges 2:17-21; key-verse, Judges 21:25.
The events recorded in Judges cover a period of 305 years (Ussher).
