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Judges: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

Alastair Roberts

Judges: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

March 20, 2022
Alastair Roberts
Alastair Roberts

*CONTENTS*

00:00:00 - Chapter 1: Failure to Complete the Conquest

00:11:27 - Chapter 2: Judges Raised Up For Unfaithful Israel

00:19:44 - Chapter 3: Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar

00:29:15 - Chapter 4: Deborah and Barak

00:40:14 - Chapter 5: The Song of Deborah and Barak

00:53:29 - Chapter 6: The Call of Gideon

01:06:04 - Chapter 7: Gideon Defeats Midian

01:14:11 - Chapter 8: Gideon's Ephod

01:23:28 - Chapter 9: Abimelech

01:33:14 - Chapter 10: Tola and Jair

01:38:01 - Chapter 11: Jephthah and His Vow

01:51:05 - Chapter 12: Jephthah's War Against Ephraim

01:59:03 - Chapter 13: Samson's Birth

02:05:57 - Chapter 14: Samson's Marriage

02:17:11 - Chapter 15: Samson Fights the Philistines

02:24:07 - Chapter 16: Samson and Delilah

02:31:13 - Chapter 17: Micah and the Levite

02:42:13 - Chapter 18: The Danites Steal Micah's Gods

02:56:05 - Chapter 19: The Levite and His Concubine

03:17:14 - Chapter 20: War Against Benjamin

03:28:36 - Chapter 21: Wives for the Benjaminites

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