Judges 7:1-15
Who is on the Lord’s Side?
Judges 7:16-25
The Defeat of Gideon’s Foes
Judges 8:1-12
The Surprise Attack
Judges 8:13-23
Gideon’s Sense of Justice
Judges 8:24-35
The Concluding Days of Gideon
Judges 9:1-15
The Renegade Who Lusted for Power
Judges 9:16-29
The Troubled Reign of Abimelech
Judges 9:30-41
The Destruction of Shechem
Judges 9:42-57
Abimelech Wanted to Get Revenge
Judges 10:1-9
Servitude Under the Philistines and Ammonites
Judges 10:10-18
The Repentance of Israel
Judges 11:1-17
Jephthah’s Call to Leadership
Judges 11:18-28
Jephthah’s History Lesson
Judges 11:29-40
Jephthah’s Vow to the Lord
Judges 13:1-7
Israel’s Final Judge
The Repentance of Israel
Judges 10:10–18
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Under heavy persecution from the Ammonites, the tribes of Israel began to pray for grace and confessing their wrong doings (v. 10). They put away all the foreign idols to serve the Lord. The Lord spoke sternly to His people (vv. 11-14). He reminded them of how He had granted them seven great national deliverances in reply to their appeals and yet they had not remained true to Him. He said that mercy must yield to judgment.
Would the Almighty give them another chance? The people prayed and got rid of their pagan deities (v. 15). The longsuffering of God was again revealed as a battle line was drawn in Gilead against the enemy (vv.16-18). This invasion of the Ammonites was presumably at the end of the eighteen-year oppression. The people of the Israelite tribes assembled themselves together, with possibly a new morale and a will to resist following their repentance and return to the Lord. God again showed His compassion to the Israelites and directed His indignation toward their enemies.
Application
Why do people so often wait for a crisis before turning to God? I must continually be asking myself if I have turned over every area of my life to His control.
Judges 10:10-18 (English Standard Version)
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