Judges
Treated in 75 passages across the library.
The history of Israel between Joshua and the rise of the kings, when "every man did that which was right in his own eyes." A repeated cycle of sin, oppression, crying out and deliverance runs through it, with God raising up judges such as Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah and Samson. Its later chapters show how far the nation fell when it forgot the Lord.
Chapters
The verses these writers stop at
- 9:15 The bramble answered the trees, 'If you are truly anointing me king over you, come and shelter in my shade. Otherwise, may fire come out of the bramble and burn up the cedars of Lebanon!' 5
- 16:20 Then she said, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He woke from his sleep and said, "I will go out as I did the other times and shake myself loose." But he did not know that the LORD had left him. 5
Open Word Bible
Where it is preached
- A Body of Divinity ·
Man's Chief End cites Judges 18:24
…the tongues of angels. His glory is his treasure, all his riches lie here; as Micah said. Judges 18:24. ‘What have I more?’ So, what has God more? God’s glory is more worth than heaven, and…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 13 — The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons Taught, in Scripture, from the Foundation of the World cites Judges 6:7
…the numerous passages in which Jehovah is said to have appeared in the form of an Angel (Judges 6:7; 13:16-23, &c). This Angel claims for himself the name of the Eternal God. Should it be…
- The Ten Commandments ·
1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Judges 18: 24
…he will be a God to us as long as he is a God. ‘Ye have taken away my gods,’ said Micah. Judges 18: 24. But it cannot be said to a believer, that his God is taken away; He may lose all things…
- The Bruised Reed ·
Means to make Grace victorious cites Judges xx. 26
…help it forward. Sometimes victory is suspended because some Achan is not found out, Judges xx. 26; or because we are not humble enough, as Israel had the worst against the Benjamites till…
- All Things for Good ·
The worst things work for good to the godly cites Judges xviii. 24
…troubled when he had lost his gods! “Ye have taken away my gods, and what have I more?” (Judges xviii. 24). So when God is gone, what have we more? It is not the harp and viol can comfort when…
- Practical Religion ·
Prayer cites Judges viii. 4
…in Egypt. They press on like Gideon,—though sometimes "faint, yet always pursuing." (Judges viii. 4.) They are ever adding grace to grace, and faith to faith, and strength to strength.…
The books that return to it most
- A Body of Divinity Thomas Watson 7 passages
- Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin 7 passages
- The Ten Commandments Thomas Watson 6 passages
- The Bruised Reed Richard Sibbes 4 passages
- All Things for Good Thomas Watson 3 passages
- Practical Religion J. C. Ryle 3 passages