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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Judges 21:1-5 His word is truth
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 21:1-5 In this chapter, Israel grieves over the loss of Benjamin. An oath has bound them from giving any of their daughters to the survivors of Benjamin as wives, and so a drastic solution is suggested, but even that comes up short. Wives for Benjamin 21 Now the men of […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 20:36b-48 The destruction of Benjamin
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 20:36b-48 The men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin, because they trusted the ambush they had set against Gibeah. 37 The men waiting in ambush rushed quickly against Gibeah. They spread out and put the whole city to the sword. 38 The prearranged signal between the men of Israel and […]
God’s Word for You – Ruth 4:11-12 The Marriage Blessing
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU RUTH 4:11-12 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and like Leah, the two who built the house of Israel. May you be treated as a worthy man in […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 20:26-36a Feint at Gibeah
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 20:26-36a 26 Then all the children of Israel—all of the people—went up to Bethel where they wept and sat before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD. 27 Once again the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days, […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 20:18-25 Two defeats
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 20:18-25 18 The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They asked, “Which of us is to go first to fight against the Benjamites? ” The LORD answered, “Judah will go first.” Bethel was about seven miles north of Gibeah, and the road to Gibeah was mostly downhill from […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 20:9-17 The sides prepare for battle
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 20:9-17 9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will go up and attack it by lot. 10 We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 20:1-8 The accusation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 20:1-8 In this chapter, we hear the very long and sad account of the war on Benjamin. This focuses our attention on the sad failure of Israel at this time, since they could not agree or work together to drive out the Canaanites, but they had little trouble uniting against […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 19:27-30 The work of a Levite
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 19:27-30 27 When her master got up in the morning, he opened the door of the house and went out to set out on his journey. There lay the woman, his concubine, fallen at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold. 28 He said to her, […]
God’s Word for You – Ruth 4:9-10 The Wedding
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU RUTH 4:9-10 9 Then Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, Kilion’s, and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, as my wife, in […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 19:22-26 Sodom II
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 19:22-26 This is a terrible passage, grisly and shocking, and unfortunately with many present-day comparisons. But we need to put it into perspective, so let’s remember the inspired warning of Joshua: “Be very careful to love the LORD your God. But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 19:16-21 You Lack Nothing
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 19:16-21 16 At last, as the sun set, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim, but he was living in Gibeah (the people there were Benjaminites). 17 When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 19:9-15 A bad example
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 19:9-15 Yesterday I made a mental error in some of the facts of the devotion—I apologize. The error was in assigning the coming atrocity to the city of Jebus (Jerusalem) rather than to Gibeah, where it actually took place. I will correct this error in the archived edition but I […]
