Finishing the Battles We Never Finished 📖 Key Text: Judges 1:27–36; Hebrews 12:1; Romans 8:13 The book of Judges begins with a sobering list: tribe after tribe that failed to drive out the nations God told them to remove. The result? Generations of compromise, defeat, and entanglement. The lesson? What you don’t drive out, will […]
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Hivites — The Bite of Deception 📖 Suggested Reading: Joshua 9:1–27; Judges 3:1–6; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15 These passages tell the story of the Gibeonites (a Hivite group) who deceived Israel with flattery and fake humility, leading to a binding covenant and long-term consequences—all because Israel “did not ask counsel from the Lord.” If the devil
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Perizzites — The Bite of Carelessness 📖 Suggested Reading: Joshua 17:14–18; Judges 1:4–5; Deuteronomy 7:1–5 These passages mention the Perizzites as inhabitants of the land who were not fully driven out. Their presence caused Israel to compromise boundaries and tolerate spiritual sloppiness—patterns we still wrestle with today. If you’ve ever left a gate open, a
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“Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife
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