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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:00 AM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Wednesday March 11 > Judges 1-3 (The Message) > > Judges 1 > 1A time came after the death of Joshua when the People of Israel asked > God, "Who will take the lead > in going up against the Canaanites to fight them?" > > 2 And God said, "Judah will go. I've given the land to him." > > 3 The men of Judah said to those of their brother Simeon, "Go up with us > to our territory and we'll > fight the Canaanites. Then we'll go with you to your > territory." And Simeon went with them. > > 4 So Judah went up. God gave them the Canaanites and the Perizzites. They > defeated them at > Bezek-ten military units! > > 5-7 They caught up with My-Master-Bezek there and fought him. They smashed > the Canaanites and the > Perizzites. My-Master-Bezek ran, but they gave chase > and caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes. My-Master-Bezek > said, "Seventy kings with > their thumbs and big toes cut off used to crawl under my > table, scavenging. Now God has done to me what I did to them." > > They brought him to Jerusalem and he died there. > > 8-10 The people of Judah attacked and captured Jerusalem, subduing the > city by sword and then > sending it up in flames. After that they had gone down to > fight the Canaanites who were living in the hill country, the Negev, and > the foothills. Judah had > gone on to the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (Hebron > used to be called Kiriath Arba) and brought Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai to > their knees. > > 11-12 From there they had marched against the population of Debir (Debir > used to be called Kiriath > Sepher). Caleb had said, "Whoever attacks Kiriath Sepher > and takes it, I'll give my daughter Acsah to him as his wife." > > 13 Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother, took it, so Caleb gave him his > daughter Acsah as his > wife. > 14-15 When she arrived she got him > to ask for farmland from her father. > As she dismounted from her donkey > Caleb asked her, "What would you like?" > She said, "Give me a marriage gift. > You've given me desert land; > Now give me pools of water!" > And he gave her the upper and the lower pools. > > 16 The people of Hobab the Kenite, Moses' relative, went up with the > people of Judah from the City > of Palms to the wilderness of Judah at the descent of > Arad. They settled down there with the Amalekites. > > 17 The people of Judah went with their kin the Simeonites and struck the > Canaanites who lived in > Zephath. They carried out the holy curse and named the > city Curse-town. > > 18-19 But Judah didn't manage to capture Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron with > their territories. God was > certainly with Judah in that they took over the hill > country. But they couldn't oust the people on the plain because they had > iron chariots. > > 20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had directed. Caleb drove out the > three sons of Anak. > > 21 But the people of Benjamin couldn't get rid of the Jebusites living in > Jerusalem. Benjaminites > and Jebusites live side by side in Jerusalem to this > day. > > 22-26 The house of Joseph went up to attack Bethel. God was with them. > Joseph sent out spies to look > the place over. Bethel used to be known as Luz. The > spies saw a man leaving the city and said to him, "Show us a way into the > city and we'll treat you > well." The man showed them a way in. They killed everyone > in the city but the man and his family. The man went to Hittite country > and built a city. He named > it Luz; that's its name to this day. > > 27-28 But Manasseh never managed to drive out Beth Shan, Taanach, Dor, > Ibleam, and Megiddo with > their territories. The Canaanites dug in their heels and > wouldn't budge. When Israel became stronger they put the Canaanites to > forced labor, but they never > got rid of them. > > 29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. The > Canaanites stuck it out and > lived there with them. > > 30 Nor did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites in Kitron or Nahalol. They > kept living there, but they > were put to forced labor. > > 31-32 Nor did Asher drive out the people of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Aczib, > Helbah, Aphek, and Rehob. > Asher went ahead and settled down with the Canaanites > since they could not get rid of them. > > 33 Naphtali fared no better. They couldn't drive out the people of Beth > Shemesh or Beth Anath so > they just moved in and lived with them. They did, though, > put them to forced labor. > > 34-35 The Amorites pushed the people of Dan up into the hills and wouldn't > let them down on the > plains. The Amorites stubbornly continued to live in Mount > Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph got the upper > hand, they were put to > forced labor. > > 36 The Amorite border extended from Scorpions' Pass and Sela upward. > > Judges 2 > 1-2God's angel went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you out > of Egypt; I led you to the > land that I promised to your fathers; and I said, I'll > never break my covenant with you-never! And you're never to make a > covenant with the people who live > in this land. Tear down their altars! But you haven't > obeyed me! What's this that you're doing? > > 3 "So now I'm telling you that I won't drive them out before you. They'll > trip you up and their > gods will become a trap." > > 4-5 When God's angel had spoken these words to all the People of Israel, > they cried out-oh! how > they wept! They named the place Bokim (Weepers). And there > they sacrificed to God. > > 6-9 After Joshua had dismissed them, the People of Israel went off to > claim their allotted > territories and take possession of the land. The people worshiped > God throughout the lifetime of Joshua and the time of the leaders who > survived him, leaders who had > been in on all of God's great work that he had done > for Israel. Then Joshua son of Nun, the servant of God, died. He was 110 > years old. They buried him > in his allotted inheritance at Timnath Heres in the > hills of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash. > > 10 Eventually that entire generation died and was buried. Then another > generation grew up that > didn't know anything of God or the work he had done for > Israel. > > 11-15 The People of Israel did evil in God's sight: they served Baal-gods; > they deserted God, the > God of their parents who had led them out of Egypt; they > took up with other gods, gods of the peoples around them. They actually > worshiped them! And oh, how > they angered God as they worshiped god Baal and goddess > Astarte! God's anger was hot against Israel: He handed them off to > plunderers who stripped them; he > sold them cheap to enemies on all sides. They were > helpless before their enemies. Every time they walked out the door God was > with them-but for evil, > just as God had said, just as he had sworn he would > do. They were in a bad way. > > 16-17 But then God raised up judges who saved them from their plunderers. > But they wouldn't listen > to their judges; they prostituted themselves to other > gods-worshiped them! They lost no time leaving the road walked by their > parents, the road of > obedience to God's commands. They refused to have anything > to do with it. > > 18-19 When God was setting up judges for them, he would be right there > with the judge: He would > save them from their enemies' oppression as long as the > judge was alive, for God was moved to compassion when he heard their > groaning because of those who > afflicted and beat them. But when the judge died, the > people went right back to their old ways-but even worse than their > parents!-running after other > gods, serving and worshiping them. Stubborn as mules, they > didn't drop a single evil practice. > > 20-22 And God's anger blazed against Israel. He said, "Because these > people have thrown out my > covenant that I commanded their parents and haven't listened > to me, I'm not driving out one more person from the nations that Joshua > left behind when he died. > I'll use them to test Israel and see whether they stay > on God's road and walk down it as their parents did." > > 23 That's why God let those nations remain. He didn't drive them out or > let Joshua get rid of them. > > Judges 3 > 1-4These are the nations that God left there, using them to test the > Israelites who had no > experience in the Canaanite wars. He did it to train the descendants > of Israel, the ones who had no battle experience, in the art of war. He > left the five Philistine > tyrants, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites > living on Mount Lebanon from Mount Baal Hermon to Hamath's Pass. They were > there to test Israel and > see whether they would obey God's commands that were > given to their parents through Moses. > > 5-6 But the People of Israel made themselves at home among the Canaanites, > Hittites, Amorites, > Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. They married their daughters > and gave their own daughters to their sons in marriage. And they worshiped > their gods. > > Othniel > 7-8 The People of Israel did evil in God's sight. They forgot their God > and worshiped the Baal gods > and Asherah goddesses. God's hot anger blazed against > Israel. He sold them off to Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim. The > People of Israel were in > servitude to Cushan-Rishathaim for eight years. > > 9-10 The People of Israel cried out to God and God raised up a savior who > rescued them: Caleb's > nephew Othniel, son of his younger brother Kenaz. The Spirit > of God came on him and he rallied Israel. He went out to war and God gave > him Cushan-Rishathaim king > of Aram Naharaim. Othniel made short work of him. > > 11 The land was quiet for forty years. Then Othniel son of Kenaz died. > > Ehud > 12-14 But the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God's sight. So > God made Eglon king of > Moab a power against Israel because they did evil in God's > sight. He recruited the Ammonites and Amalekites and went out and struck > Israel. They took the City > of Palms. The People of Israel were in servitude to > Eglon fourteen years. > > 15-19 The People of Israel cried out to God and God raised up for them a > savior, Ehud son of Gera, > a Benjaminite. He was left-handed. The People of Israel > sent tribute by him to Eglon king of Moab. Ehud made himself a short > two-edged sword and strapped it > on his right thigh under his clothes. He presented > the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Eglon was grossly fat. After Ehud > finished presenting the > tribute, he went a little way with the men who had carried > it. But when he got as far as the stone images near Gilgal, he went back > and said, "I have a private > message for you, O King." > > The king told his servants, "Leave." They all left. > > 20-24 Ehud approached him-the king was now quite alone in his cool rooftop > room-and said, "I have a > word of God for you." Eglon stood up from his throne. > Ehud reached with his left hand and took his sword from his right thigh > and plunged it into the > king's big belly. Not only the blade but the hilt went > in. The fat closed in over it so he couldn't pull it out. Ehud slipped out > by way of the porch and > shut and locked the doors of the rooftop room behind > him. Then he was gone. > > When the servants came, they saw with surprise that the doors to the > rooftop room were locked. > They said, "He's probably relieving himself in the restroom." > > 25 They waited. And then they worried-no one was coming out of those > locked doors. Finally, they > got a key and unlocked them. There was their master, fallen > on the floor, dead! > > 26-27 While they were standing around wondering what to do, Ehud was long > gone. He got past the > stone images and escaped to Seirah. When he got there, > he sounded the trumpet on Mount Ephraim. The People of Israel came down > from the hills and joined > him. He took his place at their head. > > 28 He said, "Follow me, for God has given your enemies-yes, Moab!-to you." > They went down after him > and secured the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites. > They let no one cross over. > > 29-30 At that time, they struck down about ten companies of Moabites, all > of them well-fed and > robust. Not one escaped. That day Moab was subdued under > the hand of Israel. > > The land was quiet for eighty years. > > Shamgar > 31 Shamgar son of Anath came after Ehud. Using a cattle prod, he killed > six hundred Philistines > single-handed. He too saved Israel. > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
