Transcript
A (0:05)
Hey, thanks for joining us again on A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. We love that we get to spend every day a few minutes with you. It's Shelby and C.J. we're walking through judges today. We're in chapters four through six. Before we jump into these chapters, C.J. just give us a quick recap of where we're at. And yesterday we talked about four S's, and I maybe wanna recap those again in case we don't remember them going into today.
B (0:28)
Yeah, so again, Judges comes right after Joshua. If Joshua depicted the conquest of Canaan as a success, Judges shows the darker side, shows maybe how Israel failed in the conquest or continues to fail in the conquest. And yet we talked about the four S's, and we see this pattern all throughout the Book of Judges. Israel's going to sin by committing idolatry or rebelling against God. They're going to suffer at the hands of the Canaanites who are still in the land and they haven't yet driven out. They're then going to supplicate God, which again, is just a fancy way to say they're going to cry out to God for help, and then they're going to experience God's salvation through an unlikely hero that God raises up to save Israel.
A (1:03)
Super helpful recap. Let's get into chapters four through six. What's going on in these chapters?
B (1:08)
Yeah, so again, we're going to see the same 4s pattern. We're going to see Israel sin, meaning they did again what was evil in the sight of the Lord. The text says. So then a Canaanite king named Jabin, he comes and he oppresses the Israelites, which means the Israelites are now suffering. And we don't explicitly see them supplicate the Lord or pray to God or ask God for help. But I think it's implied that when they're suffering, that's what they're doing. And then we hear the story of salvation through sort of an unlikely crew. Deborah, Barak and Jael. And Deborah is a woman. So I think in the context of the Book of Judges, she's sort of an unlikely hero in that way. And then we have Barak, who's supposed to be this fierce military commander, but he seems sort of cowardly throughout the story. And then we're going to see Jael, who. I'll hold off for a second to say more about her because she's just so great.
A (2:00)
There's a whole story there.
B (2:01)
Yeah, exactly. And then through Barak's cowardice, God says I'm going to hand over the Canaanites to a woman. And we've already been introduced to Deborah, so we think, okay, God's going to hand over the army into the hands of Deborah because she seems to be the courageous one. But as the story goes along, Sisera, who's a commander of the Canaanite army, flees away from the Israelite army, and he ends up in the tent of this woman named Jael. And Jael is very kind and hospitable, but she knows who this guy is, and she ends up comforting him, putting him down for a nap, and then she drives a tent peg through his head, believe it or not, and secures victory for Israel, which is actually a pretty. Pretty cool story.