Judges-Outline

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Judges 1: Israelites Capture Jerusalem, Hebron, Others

  1. The acts of Judah and Simeon
  2. Adonibezek justly requited
  3. Jerusalem taken
  4. Hebron taken
  5. Othniel has Achsah to wife for taking of Debir
  6. The Kenites dwell in Judah
  7. Hormah, Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron taken
  8. The acts of Benjamin
  9. Of the house of Joseph, who take Bethel
  10. Of Zebulun
  11. Of Asher
  12. Of Naphtali
  13. Of Dan

Judges 2: Israel Rebuked and Defeated

  1. An angel rebukes the people at Bochim
  2. The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua
  3. God’s anger and pity toward them
  4. The Canaanites left to prove Israel

Judges 3: Israel’s idolatry and Servitude; Deliverance by Othniel, Ehud and Shamgar

  1. The nations which were left to prove Israel
  2. By communion with them they commit idolatry
  3. Othniel delivered them from Chushan-Rishathaim
  4. Ehud from Eglon
  5. and Shamgar from the Philistines

Judges 4: Deborah and Barak Deliver the People from the Canaanites

  1. Deborah and Barak deliver them from Jabin and Sisera
  2. Jael kills Sisera

Judges 5: The Song of Deborah and Barak

  1. The Song of Deborah and Barak

Judges 6: Oppression by Midian; Gideon Chosen; Destruction of Altar of Baal; Fleece

  1. The Israelites for their sin are oppressed by Midian
  2. A prophet rebukes them
  3. An angel sends Gideon for their deliverance
  4. Gideon’s present is consumed with fire
  5. Gideon destroys Baal’s altar; offers a sacrifice upon the altar Jehovah-shalom
  6. Joash defends his son, and calls him Jerubbaal
  7. Gideon’s army
  8. Gideon’s signs

Judges 7: Gideon Uses 300 Chosen Men to Defeat the Midianites

  1. Gideon’s army of thirty-two thousand is brought to three hundred
  2. He is encouraged by the dream and interpretation of the burley cake
  3. His plan of trumpets and lamps in pitchers
  4. The Ephraimites take Oreb and Zeeb

Judges 8: Zebah and Zalmunna Taken; Gideon’s Ephod and Death; 40 years of Peace

  1. Gideon pacifies the Ephraimites
  2. Succoth and Penuel refuse to deliver Gideon’s army
  3. Zebah and Zalmunna are taken
  4. Succoth and Penuel are destroyed
  5. Gideon revenges his brothers’s death on Zebah and Zalmunna
  6. He refuses government
  7. His ephod the cause of idolatry
  8. Midian subdued
  9. Gideon’s children, and death
  10. The Israelites’ idolatry and ingratitude

Judges 9: Abimelech Conspires to Become King, Falls after 3 Years; Shechem; Abimelech

  1. Abimelech by conspiracy with the Shechemites, and murder of his brothers, is made king
  2. Jotham by a parable rebukes them, and foretells their ruin
  3. Gaal conspires with the Shechemites against him
  4. Zebul reveals it
  5. Abimelech overcomes them, and sows the city with salt
  6. He burns the hold of the god Berith
  7. At Thebez he is slain by a piece of a millstone
  8. Jotham’s curse is fulfilled.

Judges 10: Tola; Jair; Jephthah; Philistines and Ammonites Oppress Israel

  1. Tola judges Israel in Shamir
  2. Jair, whose thirty sons had thirty cities
  3. The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel
  4. In their misery God sends them to their false gods
  5. Upon their repentance he pities them

Judges 11: Jephthah’s Covenant with the Gileadites

  1. The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites, that he should lead
  2. The treaty of peace between him and the Ammonites is in vain
  3. Jephthah’s vow
  4. His conquest of the Ammonites
  5. He performs his vow on his daughter.

Judges 12: Jephthah, Ephraim, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon

  1. The Ephraimites, quarrelling with Jephthah, are slain by the Gileadites
  2. Jephthah dies
  3. Ibzan, who had thirty sons, and thirty daughters
  4. and Elon
  5. and Abdon, who had forty sons, and thirty nephews, judge Israel

Judges 13: Israel Oppressed by the Philistines; Samson Is Born

  1. Israel is delivered into the hands of Philistines
  2. An angel appears to Manoah’s wife
  3. The angel appears to Manoah
  4. Manoah’s sacrifices, whereby the angel is discovered.
  5. Samson is born

Judges 14: Samson’s Marriage and Riddle

  1. Samson desires a wife of the Philistines.
  2. In his journey he kills a lion
  3. In a second journey he finds honey in the carcass
  4. Samson’s marriage feast
  5. His riddle by his wife is made known
  6. He strikes down thirty Philistines
  7. His wife is married to another.

Judges 15: Samson Burns the Philistine Crops

  1. Samson is denied his wife
  2. He burns the Philistines’ corn with foxes and firebrands
  3. His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines
  4. Samson smites them hip and thigh
  5. He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines
  6. He kills them with a jawbone
  7. God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi

Judges 16: Samson and Delilah; Samson’s Capture and Death

  1. Samson at Gaza escapes, and carries away the gates of the city
  2. Delilah corrupted by the Philistines, entices Samson
  3. Thrice she is deceived
  4. At last she overcomes him
  5. The Philistines take him, and put out his eyes
  6. His strength renewing, he pulls down the house upon the Philistines and dies

Judges 17: Micah’s Idolatry

  1. Of the money that Micah first stole, then restored, his mother makes idols
  2. And he makes ornaments for them
  3. He hires a Levite to be his priest

Judges 18: Danites Settle in Laish, Take Micah’s Idols

  1. The Danites send five men to seek out an inheritance
  2. At the house of Micah they consult with Jonathan, and are encouraged
  3. They search Laish, and bring back news of good hope
  4. Six hundred men are sent to surprise it
  5. In their way they rob Micah of his priest and his consecrated things
  6. They win Laish, and call it Dan
  7. They set up idolatry, wherein Jonathan inherits the priesthood.

 

Judges 19: A Levite’s Concubine Degraded

  1. A Levite goes to Bethlehem to fetch home his concubine
  2. An old man entertains him at Gibeah
  3. The Gibeonites abuse his concubine to death
  4. He divides her into twelve pieces, and sends them to the twelve tribes

Judges 20: Israelites Defeat the Benjamites

  1. The Levite in a general assembly declared his wrong
  2. The decree of the assembly
  3. The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites
  4. The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand
  5. They destroy by a plan all the Benjamites, except six hundred.

Judges 21: Wives for the Benjamites

  1. The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin
  2. By the destruction of Jabesh Gilead they provide them four hundred wives.
  3. They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh.
But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (Hebrews 13:16)

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