OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

1

• Judah and Simeon’s conquests (1-20)

• Jebusites persist in Jerusalem (21)

• Joseph takes Bethel (22-26)

• Canaanites not completely driven out (27-36)

2

• Warning from Jehovah’s angel (1-5)

• Death of Joshua (6-10)

• Judges raised up to save Israel (11-23)

3

• Jehovah tests Israel (1-6)

• Othniel, the first judge (7-11)

• Judge Ehud kills fat King Eglon (12-30)

• Judge Shamgar (31)

4

• Canaanite King Jabin oppresses Israel (1-3)

• Prophetess Deborah and Judge Barak (4-16)

• Jael kills army chief Sisera (17-24)

5

• Victory song of Deborah and Barak (1-31)

  • Stars fight against Sisera (20)

  • Torrent of Kishon floods (21)

  • Those loving Jehovah are like the sun (31)

6

• Midian oppresses Israel (1-10)

• An angel assures Judge Gideon of support (11-24)

• Gideon tears down altar of Baal (25-32)

• God’s spirit active on Gideon (33-35)

• The fleece test (36-40)

7

• Gideon and his 300 men (1-8)

• Gideon’s army defeats Midian (9-25)

  • “The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon!” (20)

  • Confusion in the Midianite camp (21, 22)

8

• Ephraimites quarrel with Gideon (1-3)

• Midianite kings pursued and killed (4-21)

• Gideon refuses kingship (22-27)

• Summary of Gideon’s life (28-35)

9

• Abimelech becomes king in Shechem (1-6)

• Jotham’s parable (7-21)

• Abimelech’s violent rule (22-33)

• Abimelech assaults Shechem (34-49)

• Woman wounds Abimelech; he dies (50-57)

10

• Judges Tola and Jair (1-5)

• Israel rebels and repents (6-16)

• Ammonites threaten Israel (17, 18)

11

• Judge Jephthah expelled, later made leader (1-11)

• Jephthah reasons with Ammon (12-28)

• Jephthah’s vow and his daughter (29-40)

  • Daughter’s life of singleness (38-40)

12

• Conflict with the Ephraimites (1-7)

  • Shibboleth test (6)

• Judges Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon (8-15)

13

• An angel visits Manoah and his wife (1-23)

• Birth of Samson (24, 25)

14

• Judge Samson seeks a Philistine wife (1-4)

• Samson kills a lion by Jehovah’s spirit (5-9)

• Samson’s riddle at the wedding (10-19)

• Samson’s wife given to another man (20)

15

• Samson’s revenge on the Philistines (1-20)

16

• Samson in Gaza (1-3)

• Samson and Delilah (4-22)

• Samson’s revenge and death (23-31)

17

• Micah’s idols and his priest (1-13)

18

• The Danites look for land (1-31)

  • Micah’s idols and priest captured (14-20)

  • Laish taken and renamed Dan (27-29)

  • Idol worship in Dan (30, 31)

19

• Benjaminites’ sex crime in Gibeah (1-30)

20

• War against the Benjaminites (1-48)

21

• Benjamin saved as a tribe (1-25)