12/09/2011

Annotated Outline of Judges


Judges
  1. Victories and failures of Israel after Joshua (Judg. 1:1-3:4)  (1:1-36)
    1. Judah's victory at Bezek  (1:1-8)
    2. Judah's victory at Hebron (Judg. 1:20)  (1:9-10)
    3. Judah's victory through Caleb at Debir (Josh. 15:16)  (1:11-15)
    4. Judah's victories at Hormah and Philistia  (1:16-18)
    5. Judah's failure (Josh. 15:63)  (1:19)
    6. Judah's victory over giants at Hebron (Judg. 1:9)  (1:20)
    7. Failure of Benjamin  (1:21)
    8. Victory of Joseph (Judg. 1:35)  (1:22-26)
    9. Failure of Manasseh (Josh. 17:12-17; Dt. 7:2)  (1:27-28)
    10. Failure of Ephraim (Josh. 16:10; Dt. 7:2)  (1:29)
    11. Failure of Zebulun (Dt. 7:2)  (1:30)
    12. Failure of Asher (Dt. 7:2)  (1:31-32)
    13. Failure of Naphtali (Dt. 7:2)  (1:33)
    14. Failure of Dan (Dt. 7:2)  (1:34)
    15. Failure of Joseph (Judg. 1:22)  (1:35-36)
  2. God appears: rebukes Israel for breaking laws of conquest (Num. 31:17, refs.)  (2:1-23)
    1. God's purpose to test Israel by her enemies (Judg. 2:20-23; 3:1-4)  (2:3-5)
    2. Temporary obedience under Joshua and elders (Josh. 24:21)  (2:6-10)
    3. Six sins of Israel  (2:11-13)
    4. God begins to fulfill the Palestinian   (2:14-15)
      1. Covenant of judgment and dispersion (Dt. 11:26-29; 28:15-68; Lev. 26)  (2:14-15)
    5. Institution of judges and temporary deliverances  (2:16-19)
    6. God's purpose to test Israel by her enemies (Judg. 2:3-5; 3:1-4)  (2:20-23)
  3. God's instruments in testing Israel (Judg. 3:3,20)  (3:1-31)
    1. Apostasies, servitudes and judges (Judg. 3:5-16:31)  (3:5-7)
      1. First apostasy  (3:5-7)
    2. First servitude: eight years to Babylon  (3:8)
    3. Othniel: first judge.  Victory over Babylon: forty years peace  (3:9-11)
    4. Second apostasy and servitude: eighteen years to Moab  (3:12-14)
    5. Ehud: second judge.  Victory over Moab: eighty years peace  (3:15-30)
    6. Third apostasy and servitude.  Shamgar: third judge.  Victory over Philistia  (3:31)
  4. Fourth apostasy and servitude: twenty years to Canaanites  (4:1-24)
    1. Deborah and Barak: fourth and fifth judges: forty years (Judg. 5:31)  (4:4-9)
      1. First prophetess since Miriam (Ex. 15:20): prophecy of Deborah  (4:4-9)
    2. Mobilization of armies  (4:10-13)
    3. Victory over Canaanites  (4:14-16)
    4. Death of Sisera  (4:17-24)
  5. Song of Deborah and Barak  (5:1-31)
    1. A. Praise to God for victory  (5:1-5)
    2. B. Rise of Deborah and Barak when Israel was oppressed  (5:6-13)
    3. C. Conduct of the other tribes in war on Canaanites  (5:14-17)
    4. D. Battle on Mount Tabor  (5:18-23)
    5. E. Blessing on Jael for killing Sisera (Judg. 4:18-24)  (5:24-27)
    6. F. Anxiety and presumption of Sisera's mother and maids  (5:28-30)
    7. G. Curse and blessing upon the enemies and friends of God  (5:31)
  6. Fifth apostasy and servitude: seven years to Midian  (6:1-40)
    1. First unnamed prophet in Israel after Joshua (Josh. 1:10; 23:1; 24:2; Heb. 1:1-2)  (6:7-10)
    2. Gideon: sixth judge: forty years (Judg. 8:28)  (6:11-16)
      1. God appears and commissions him  (6:11-16)
    3. Gideon convinced of God's personal appearance  (6:17-21)
    4. Gideon assured that one can see God and live (Gen. 32:30)  (6:22-24)
    5. Gideon obeys God: destroys Baalism and restores true worship  (6:25-27)
    6. Gideon protected from idolaters by his father  (6:28-32)
    7. Mobilization of Israel  (6:33-35)
    8. Two miracle signs to confirm God's promise  (6:36-40)
  7. Gideon's band of three hundred men  (7:1-25)
    1. Fourth sign of victory (see note h, Judg. 6:17)  (7:9-15)
    2. Miraculous victory  (7:16-25)
  8. Second civil strife (Judg. 20:1; 2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (8:1-35)
    1. Victory completed: judgment on Succoth  (8:4-21)
    2. Gideon's rule and ruin  (8:22-31)
    3. Sixth apostasy  (8:32-35)
  9. Abimelech: seventh judge: three years (Judg. 9:22)  (9:1-57)
    1. Conspiracy of Abimelech: third civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (9:1-6)
    2. Prophetic parable of Jotham  (9:7-15)
    3. Jotham supplies the parable to the men of Shechem  (9:16-21)
    4. Fourth civil strife  (9:22-29)
      1. A. Plot against Abimelech by Shechem  (9:22-29)
    5. B. Plot against Shechem by Abimelech in retaliation  (9:30-35)
    6. C. Victory of Abimelech  (9:36-41)
    7. D. Destruction of Shechem  (9:42-49)
    8. E. Death of Abimelech: prophecy completed  (9:50-57)
  10. Tola: eighth judge: twenty-three years  (10:1-18)
    1. Jair: ninth judge: twenty-two years  (10:3-5)
    2. Seventh apostasy: sixth servitude-eighteen years to Philistia and Ammon  (10:6-9)
    3. Repentance of Israel: God refuses to forgive mere words  (10:10-14)
    4. Israel proves genuine repentance putting away sin  (10:15-16)
    5. Preparation for war  (10:17-18)
  11. Jephthah: tenth judge: six years (Judg. 12:7)  (11:1-40)
    1. Jephthah disinherited flees  (11:1-3)
    2. Jephthah invited to lead war against the Ammonites  (11:4-6)
    3. Jephthah's condition of return to his people  (11:7-9)
    4. Condition accepted: returns as captain of Israel  (11:10-11)
    5. Jephthah's first message to the king of Ammon  (11:12)
    6. Israel wrongly accused of taking land from Ammonites (Num. 21:24; Dt. 2:19)  (11:13)
    7. Jephthah denies the charge by rehearsing three hundred years of history  (11:14-28)
    8. Jephthah's awful vow  (11:29-31)
    9. Victory over Ammon  (11:32-33)
    10. Jephthah's vow fulfilled (Lev. 27:1-8; Dt. 23:21)  (11:34-40)
  12. Fifth civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (12:1-15)
    1. Ibzan: eleventh judge: seven years  (12:8-10)
    2. Elon: twelfth judge: ten years  (12:11-12)
    3. Abdon: thirteenth judge: eight years  (12:13-15)
  13. Eighth apostasy, seventh servitude: forty years to Philistia  (13:1-25)
    1. Samson: fourteenth judge: twenty years (Judg. 16:31)  (13:2-5)
      1. Angelic annunciation  (13:2-5)
    2. Prayer for guidance  (13:6-8)
    3. Second angelic appearance  (13:9-20)
    4. Ancient superstition disproved (Gen. 32:30; Judg. 6:22)  (13:21-23)
    5. Birth of Samson  (13:24-25)
  14. Samson's first love  (14:1-20)
    1. Samson and the lion  (14:5-9)
    2. Samson's marriage and the riddle propounded  (14:10-14)
    3. Riddle answer discovered: occasion for vengeance  (14:15-18)
    4. Vengeance: thirty men slain  (14:19-20)
  15. Second cause for vengeance  (15:1-20)
    1. Vengeance: three hundred foxes burn Philistine crops  (15:3-5)
    2. Third cause for vengeance  (15:6)
    3. Vengeance: great slaughter  (15:7-10)
    4. Fourth cause for vengeance  (15:11-13)
    5. Vengeance: one thousand slain  (15:14-17)
    6. Miracle: water from the jawbone of an ass  (15:18-20)
  16. Fifth cause for vengeance  (16:1-31)
    1. Vengeance: destruction of the city gates  (16:3)
    2. Sixth cause for vengeance: Samson and Delilah  (16:4-9)
      1. A. Bound with seven green withs  (16:4-9)
    3. B. Bound by new ropes  (16:10-12)
    4. C. Seven locks tied to a beam  (16:13-14)
    5. D. Samson's first haircut  (16:15-19)
    6. Samson's humiliation  (16:20-25)
    7. Vengeance: three thousand slain  (16:26-30)
    8. Burial: length of reign  (16:31)
  17. Internal disorders: ninth apostasy (Judg. 17:1-21:25)  (17:1-13)
    1. Micah's idolatry  (17:1-5)
    2. Unstable government (Judg. 18:1)  (17:6)
    3. Apostasy of the Levite  (17:7-13)
  18. Unstable government (Judg. 17:6)  (18:1-31)
    1. Mission of Danite spies to seek an inheritance  (18:2-10)
    2. Micah's gods stolen  (18:11-21)
    3. Micah fails to recover his gods  (18:22-26)
    4. Conquest of Laish and building of the city of Dan  (18:27-29)
    5. Idolatry of the Danites  (18:30-31)
  19. Moral conditions  (19:1-30)
    1. The Levite and his concubine  (19:1-9)
    2. His stay at Gibeah  (19:10-21)
    3. Sodomites of Gibeah abuse the concubine all night  (19:22-25)
    4. The concubine found dead  (19:26-28)
    5. Concubine cut in twelve pieces and sent to all Israel  (19:29-30)
  20. Sixth civil strife (2 Ki. 25:25, refs.)  (20:1-48)
    1. Mobilization of Israel  (20:1-3)
    2. Sin rehearsed to Israel  (20:4-6)
    3. War declared on Gibeah: sodomites demanded to be slain  (20:7-13)
    4. Benjamites mobilized to protect the sodomites, breaking the law of Lev. 18:22  (20:14-17)
    5. First battle: Israel beaten  (20:18-21)
    6. Second battle: Israel beaten  (20:22-25)
    7. Israel's prayer and fast  (20:26-28)
    8. Third battle: Benjamin almost totally destroyed  (20:29-46)
    9. Six hundred Benjamites escape  (20:47-48)
  21. Mourning for a lost tribe  (21:1-25)
    1. Problem of wives solved  (21:7-12)
    2. Peace made with Benjamin  (21:13-15)
    3. Wife problem still unsolved  (21:16-18)
    4. Wife problem fully solved  (21:19-24)
    5. Moral and civil conditions when judges ruled  (21:25)

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