Old Testament Historical 21 chapters
Judges
After Joshua, Israel spirals through repeated cycles of sin, oppression, crying out, and deliverance through judges. The refrain: "Everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
Outline
- Ch. 1–3:6 Incomplete conquest; the cycle introduced
- Ch. 3:7–16 The judges: Othniel, Ehud, Deborah and Barak (4–5), Gideon (6–8), Abimelech (9), Jephthah (10–12), Samson (13–16)
- Ch. 17–21 Israel's moral collapse: Micah's idols, the Danite migration, the outrage at Gibeah and civil war