Skip to content

Digital Lutheran Church Pray. Meet Jesus. Be ready for Sunday.

New here? Search

Time after Pentecost · Green · Tuesday, October 20 · Year A What’s this?

Old Testament · Israel's story

Judges

Israel forgets God, gets into trouble, cries out, and God raises a rescuer. Again and again, with each cycle worse. Deborah, Gideon, Samson.

8 minJudges 1–21From BibleProject

Watch it

Made by BibleProject. Their channel ↗ · bibleproject.com ↗

Where it meets Jesus

The book ends "everyone did what was right in his own eyes." It shows why Israel needed a better king than any judge.

In its own words

¹⁶The LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
¹⁷Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the LORD’s commandments. They didn’t do so.
¹⁸When the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved the LORD because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
¹⁹But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

Judges 2:16–19, World English Bible. The whole chapter on Free Scripture ↗

Read it next

Judges 2.

The video is a map; the book is the place. Open Judges 2 on Free Scripture ↗, free, in the same translation.

Page last reviewed September 2026