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The Call to Lead
Read Judges 5: 1-31 This is a song about leadership and God’s hand in the present administration in many ways. It started by acknowledging that both Barak and Deborah were leading them and recognizing the people who willingly followed them. 2 “That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the Lord!…
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Judge Deborah
Read Judges 4:1-23 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead.2 So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim.3 Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried…
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Again….
Judges 3:7-31 7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. 8 The anger of the Lord burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years. 9 But when they cried out to the Lord, he raised up…
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Idolatry and Whoring After gods
Judges 2:16-23 16 Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they…
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When People Abandoned God
Judges 2:11-15 11 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. 12 And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to…