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Judges - Interesting Times For Israel
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Judges - Interesting Times For Israel 2 years, 9 months ago #634
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 Today in the One Year Bible we start reading Judges: --------------------- The name of the book of Judges comes from the title given to the 12 leaders (“judges,” whose temporary leadership was both civil and military) of Israel during the period between Joshua and Samuel. The book is anonymous; nowhere in Scripture is any author indicated. The book consists of various blocks of material about different judges, which conceivably could have been written by multiple authors over a period of time. Late Jewish tradition ascribes authorship to Samuel, which is certainly possible. However, in the end, the book's author is not known. Date of events. The events in Judges took place in the period between Joshua's death (either mid-14th or late-13th century b.c.) and the rise of Samuel and Saul (mid-11th century). --------------------- In Judges 1 we see the true origins of the "giants" of the Old Testament that are after the Flood. These large people are NOT the hybrid offspring of fallen angels and human beings as some claim. Clearly their origin is from a person named Anak who had three sons: Judges 1 : 19 The Lord was with the people of Judah, and they took possession of the hill country. But they failed to drive out the people living in the plains, who had iron chariots. 20 The town of Hebron was given to Caleb as Moses had promised. And Caleb drove out the people living there, who were descendants of the three sons of Anak. Anak = "neck" progenitor of a family, or tribe of the giant people in Canaan Anakims = "long-necked" the descendants of Anak (Josh. 11:21; Num. 13:33; Deut. 9:2). They dwelt in the south of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Hebron (Gen. 23:2; Josh. 15:13). In the days of Abraham (Gen. 14:5, 6) they inhabited the region afterwards known as Edom and Moab, east of the Jordan. They were probably a remnant of the original inhabitants of Palestine before the Canaanites, a Cushite tribe from Babel, and of the same race as the Phoenicians and the Egyptian shepherd kings. Their formidable warlike appearance, as described by the spies sent to search the land, filled the Israelites with terror. They seem to have identified them with the Nephilim, the "giants" (Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33) of the antediluvian age. There were various tribes of Anakim (Josh. 15:14). Joshua finally expelled them from the land, except a remnant that found a refuge in the cities of Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod (Josh. 11:22). The Philistine giants whom David encountered (2 Sam. 21:15-22) were descendants of the Anakim. --------------- Judges shows the constant tendency of people towards apostasy and the need for vigilance in following the LORD. The disobedience of the people is mentioned 8x and the need for the chastening from the LORD to bring them back into right relationship. |
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