The book of Judges ended on a low note, and the book of Ruth does not open optimistically either. Yet, what we find throughout the book is a tale of redemption in Jesus Christ; although this is the first book where it seems that God is silent, it is in fact entirely underpinned by the [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 26, 2009
Judges 19-21: Who is the King?
Judges 19: Christ the Levitical Concubine
Jdg 19:1-30 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. (2) And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away [...]
July 15, 2009
Judges 17-18: The House of God at Shiloh
Judges 17: False Gospel
The False Tabernacle and the False Gospel
Commentators have postulated that chapters 17-18 are located in a chronology previous to that of the period of judges. V.6 is indicative of the period, though strictly speaking the judges were not kings. We must remember that the judges are placed firmly between the time when [...]
July 14, 2009
Judges 15-16: The Sun of Righteousness
Judges 15: The Omen
Firstfruits at the Rock of Etam
1After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with(A) a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in. 2And her father said, “I [...]
July 13, 2009
Judges 13-14: The Nazirite and His Father
Judges 13: Christ the Nazirite
The miraculous birth of the Messiah, the Nazirite
1And the people of Israel again(A) did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them(B) into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
2There was a certain man of(C) Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name [...]
July 3, 2009
Judges 11-12: Felix Culpa and Foci of Judges
Judges 11: Jephthah and the Blessed Fault in the Holy Vow
Jdg 11:1-40 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. (2) And Gilead’s wife also bore him sons. And when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said [...]
