The Book of Judges narrates Israel's slow decay. Rather than driving out God's enemies, Israel becomes just like God's enemies. And Judges ends, not with God's leadership of Israel, but the people's whims and desires leading them to destruction. To learn more about Spoken Gospel, visit https://www.spokengospel.com/

Jesus in All of Judges

This Bible study devotional covers Judges chapters 1-3:6. In this passage, we read about the downward spiral of the book of Judges: Disobedience - Punishment - Cry - Mercy - Disobedience.

As always, we are committed to showing you how to see the good news of the Gospel in every passage of Scripture. In Judges 1-3:6, we see that Jesus ends the pattern of disobedience - punishment - cry - mercy with a cycle-ending act of sacrificial obedience and power.

Judges 1-3:6

This Bible study devotional covers Judges chapters 3:7-5. In this passage, we’re introduced to Israel’s first judges - Ehud, Shamgar, and Deborah. Each of them judges God’s enemies and rescues Israel.

As always, we are committed to showing you how to see the good news of the Gospel in every passage of Scripture. In Judges 3:7-5, we see Jesus is a better deliverer than Ehud, Shamgar, and Deborah. Jesus doesn’t merely destroy an oppressive king he crushes the Serpent that introduced sin and death.

Judges 3:7-5

This Bible study devotional covers Judges 6-8. In this passage, we read about Gideon’s army of 300 men defeating the Midianites. 

As always, we are committed to showing you how to see the good news of the Gospel in every passage of Scripture. In Judges 6-8, we see Gideon’s cowardice, pride, reluctance, and violence compared with the brave, humble, and sacrificial kingship of Jesus.

Judges 6-8

About Abimelech’s brutal military campaigns that come to a sudden and deserved end when a woman drops a stone on his head. 

As always, we are committed to showing you how to see the good news of the Gospel in every passage of Scripture. In Judges 9, we see that Jesus welcomes us into a kingdom where all that is left for us is mercy.


Judges 9

This Bible study devotional covers Judges 10-12. In this passage, we read about God’s silence as Jepthah judges Israel and sacrifices his own daughter. 

As always, we are committed to showing you how to see the good news of the Gospel in every passage of Scripture. In Judges 10-12 we see that Jesus experiences God’s silence for us. And by experiencing God’s silence, Jesus now speaks a better word than the bloodshed of Jepthah - we are sons and daughters he will not forsake.

Judges 10-12

This Bible study devotional covers Joshua 13-16. In this passage, we read about Samson’s violence, lust, and revenge that eventually end in his death. 

As always, we are committed to showing you how to see the good news of the Gospel in every passage of Scripture. In Judges 13-16, we see that Jesus’ sacrificial death brought greater victory than his life because through his death, everyone who believes in him is saved from the stalking lions of sin and death.

Judges 13-16

This Bible study devotional covers Judges 17-18. In this passage, we see that the people of Israel are no different than their leaders, everyone does what seems right in their own eyes. 

As always, we are committed to showing you how to see the good news of the Gospel in every passage of Scripture. In Judges 17-18, we see that anyone who doesn’t do what seems right in their own eyes, takes up their cross, and follows Jesus will not just gain their soul, they’ll gain the whole world too (Matthew 16:25-26).

Judges 17-18

This Bible study devotional covers Joshua chapters 19-21. In this passage, we see the bottom of Israel’s spiral into depravity. The rape and mutilation of a concubine lead to a civil war in Israel.

As always, we are committed to showing you how to see the good news of the Gospel in every passage of Scripture. In Judges 19-21 we see that Jesus offers hope to those of us who feel too enmeshed in patterns of lust and too far down a cycle of depravity. There is no self-destructive spiral Jesus is unwilling to go down and there is no heart he is unwilling to clean and create new life in.
