Welcome to Bible stories. We are your hosts, Matt, hello, and Todd. We are ministers who love the stories of the Bible and we want to share them with you.

And today's story is something else. Is it ever Todd? Today's story is filled

with suspense, drama, murder, and unsuspecting heroes.

Today's story is the story of E-Hud The Judge.

Scene 1, the time of the judges.

Our story comes from Judges Chapter 3. In addition to being a rad name for a book of the Bible,

the word judges gives us a clue to the time period in which our story takes place.

The age of the judges begins with the death of Joshua

and stretches all the way until the coronation of King Saul.

And how did you remember Saul?

He was tall, handsome, and a class A dingus, right?

Mm-hmm, that's correct.

Well, this period of time stretches for about 300 years or so, and these 300 years were mostly bad news, filled with captivity, war, and a nation on

spiritual life support. So you may be asking yourself, how did such a crock pot of

awful come to be? Well, when the Israelites came into

the promised land with Joshua, they were told by the Lords to conquer the land,

make no covenants with the inhabitants, and destroy their altars.

Instead, many Canaanites were permitted to remain in the promised land.

In fact, the people of God intermarried with those remaining Canaanites, which led to acceptance

and even participation in idle worship.

And so because of all these failures, God told Israel that he would no longer provide

divine aid to the Israelites to drive out the inhabitants of the promised land.

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