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Lecture 16

OUTLINE OF JUDGES

I. Background: Failure to drive out the Canaanites (1:1­2:5)

II. Introduction: Cycle of Apostasy (2:6­3:6)

III. Cycles: "Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord"

A. Othniel (3:7­11)

B. Ehud (3:12­31)

C. Deborah (4­5)

D. Gideon (6­8)

E. Minor Leaders

1. Abimelech (9)

2. Tolar end Jair (10:1­5)

F. Jephthah (10:6­12:7)

G. Other Minor Judges

1. Ibzan (12:8­10)

2. Elon (12:11­12)

3. Abdon (12:13­15)

H. Samson (13­16)

IV. Tribal depravity "Everyone did as he saw fit'

A. Danites (17­18)

B. Benjaminites (19­21)

This outline is from Hill, Andrew E. end John H. Walton. A Survey of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan Zondervan Publishing House, 1991.

Resources:

• Batdorf, I.W.. "The Book of Judges." The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. Vol. .2. Ed. George Arthur Buttrick, et al. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985.
• Hill, Andrew E. end John H. Walton. A Survey of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1991.
• Bailey, Waylon and Tom Hudson. Step by Step Through the Old Testament. Nashville: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1991.
• Dalglish, Edward R. "Judges." The Broadman Bible Commentary. Vol. 2. Ed. Clifton J. Allen, et al. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985.
• Smith, Robert Houston. "The Book of Judges." Interpreter's One­Volume Commentary on the Bible Ed. Charles M. Laymon. Nashville: Abingdon

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