Saturday Bonus Point Opportunity
Here is the final bonus point opportunity for the week. I hope you have enjoyed this look into the Judges of Israel. It is interesting to watch how Israel would be rescued by a judge, live in peace for a few years, forget about their devotion to God and start to turn away from Him. Then they would fall to a foreign king, be taken into captivity, or exiled, have a really hard time, call out to God and be rescued again by another Judge (although there were some judges that were not very good, too. This was the way it worked for the entire book of Judges.
The facts of this Judge can be found in Judges 8-9
- wrestled control of Israel by executing 70 half-brothers
- Jotham, the one half-brother left, after telling the people they had made a bad choice.
- This judge ruled for a very violent 3 years - ambushing others and being ambushed.
- Was killed when a large rock was dropped on his head, then he asked his assistant to finish him off
- did this so "it wouldn't go down that a woman had killed him".
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