I'm Heather and I'm Susan. Come along with us on an adventure in the book of judges. Welcome to the

club, the Bible book club. In chapters two and the beginning of chapter three, we learned that

God had sent an angel up from Gilgall to remind the Israelites of the plan and to challenge

them on their disobedience, which is becoming a problem. And they apparently got the message because

they were weeping. Then we discussed the overview that the author provided of what will happen in

the rest of the book of judges. And that is summed up in this verse,

verse 10. After that, the whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors. Another generation

grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what the Lord had done for Israel. Then the Israelites did

evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Bayals. This phrase will become the bane

of the Israelites existence. The episode ended with a list of the nations left to test Israel's

obedience to God. All right. Here's the setup for keeping the 12 judges straight in your head.

Now that we are through both the military and spiritual introductions

to judges because you know we had two introductions it was a little it was a lot so let's talk about

these different judges themselves before we launch into the first three we have a chart a tool for

you now if you are new to the book of judges and would like to keep

these 12 straight, you can look this up in the show notes. It helped me a lot because you hear

about them randomly in stories throughout the Bible, but you don't realize that there were 12

together. And there was an order to them. And there were different things that we got information

about each of them about.

So there were major and minor judges, six of each.

And it is thought that each tribe was represented in the 12.

Now, we had a guess on a few 12s because not all of the judges are given an exact location.

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