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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 10:14 AM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Saturday March 14 > Judges 10-12 (The Message) > > Judges 10 > > Tola > 1-2 Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, was next after Abimelech. He rose > to the occasion to save > Israel. He was a man of Issachar. He lived in Shamir in > the hill country of Ephraim. He judged Israel for twenty-three years and > then died and was buried at > Shamir. > > Jair > 3-5 After him, Jair the Gileadite stepped into leadership. He judged > Israel for twenty-two years. He > had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and had > thirty towns in Gilead. The towns are still called Jair's Villages. Jair > died and was buried in > Kamon. > > 6-8 And then the People of Israel went back to doing evil in God's sight. > They worshiped the Baal > gods and Ashtoreth goddesses: gods of Aram, Sidon, and > Moab; gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They just walked off and > left God, quit worshiping > him. And God exploded in hot anger at Israel and sold > them off to the Philistines and Ammonites, who, beginning that year, > bullied and battered the People > of Israel mercilessly. For eighteen years they had > them under their thumb, all the People of Israel who lived east of the > Jordan in the Amorite country > of Gilead. > > 9 Then the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to go to war also against Judah, > Benjamin, and Ephraim. > Israel was in a bad way! > > 10 The People of Israel cried out to God for help: "We've sinned against > you! We left our God and > worshiped the Baal gods!" > > 11-14 God answered the People of Israel: "When the Egyptians, Amorites, > Ammonites, Philistines, > Sidonians-even Amalek and Midian!-oppressed you and you > cried out to me for help, I saved you from them. And now you've gone off > and betrayed me, worshiping > other gods. I'm not saving you anymore. Go ahead! > Cry out for help to the gods you've chosen-let them get you out of the > mess you're in!" > > 15 The People of Israel said to God: "We've sinned. Do to us whatever you > think best, but please, > get us out of this!" > > 16 Then they cleaned house of the foreign gods and worshiped only God. And > God took Israel's > troubles to heart. > > Jephthah > 17-18 The Ammonites prepared for war, setting camp in Gilead. The People > of Israel set their rival > camp in Mizpah. The leaders in Gilead said, "Who will > stand up for us against the Ammonites? We'll make him head over everyone > in Gilead!" > > Judges 11 > 1-3Jephthah the Gileadite was one tough warrior. He was the son of a > whore, but Gilead was his > father. Meanwhile Gilead's legal wife had given him other > sons, and when they grew up, his wife's sons threw Jephthah out. They told > him: "You're not getting > any of our family inheritance-you're the son of another > woman." So Jephthah fled from his brothers and went to live in the land of > Tob. Some riffraff joined > him and went around with him. > > 4-6 Some time passed. And then the Ammonites started fighting Israel. With > the Ammonites at war > with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from > the land of Tob. They said to Jephthah: "Come. Be our general and we'll > fight the Ammonites." > > 7 But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead: "But you hate me. You kicked > me out of my family home. > So why are you coming to me now? Because you are in > trouble. Right?" > > 8 The elders of Gilead replied, "That's it exactly. We've come to you to > get you to go with us and > fight the Ammonites. You'll be the head of all of us, > all the Gileadites." > > 9 Jephthah addressed the elders of Gilead, "So if you bring me back home > to fight the Ammonites and > God gives them to me, I'll be your head-is that right?" > > 10-11 They said, "God is witness between us; whatever you say, we'll do." > Jephthah went along with > the elders of Gilead. The people made him their top > man and general. And Jephthah repeated what he had said before God at > Mizpah. > > 12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites with a > message: "What's going on here > that you have come into my country picking a fight?" > > 13 The king of the Ammonites told Jephthah's messengers: "Because Israel > took my land when they > came up out of Egypt-from the Arnon all the way to the > Jabbok and to the Jordan. Give it back peaceably and I'll go." > > 14-27 Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites with the > message: "Jephthah's > word: Israel took no Moabite land and no Ammonite land. > When they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the desert as far as the > Red Sea, arriving at > Kadesh. There Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom > saying, 'Let us pass through your land, please.' But the king of Edom > wouldn't let them. Israel also > requested permission from the king of Moab, but he > wouldn't let them cross either. They were stopped in their tracks at > Kadesh. So they traveled across > the desert and circled around the lands of Edom and > Moab. They came out east of the land of Moab and set camp on the other > side of the Arnon-they didn't > set foot in Moabite territory, for Arnon was the Moabite > border. Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites at > Heshbon the capital. Israel > asked, 'Let us pass, please, through your land on the > way to our country.' But Sihon didn't trust Israel to cut across his land; > he got his entire army > together, set up camp at Jahaz, and fought Israel. But > God, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his troops to Israel. Israel > defeated them. Israel took > all the Amorite land, all Amorite land from Arnon to > the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan. It was God, the God of > Israel, who pushed out the > Amorites in favor of Israel; so who do you think you are > to try to take it over? Why don't you just be satisfied with what your god > Chemosh gives you and > we'll settle for what God, our God, gives us? Do you think > you're going to come off better than Balak son of Zippor, the king of > Moab? Did he get anywhere in > opposing Israel? Did he risk war? All this time-it's > been three hundred years now!-that Israel has lived in Heshbon and its > villages, in Aroer and its > villages, and in all the towns along the Arnon, why didn't > you try to snatch them away then? No, I haven't wronged you. But this is > an evil thing that you are > doing to me by starting a fight. Today God the Judge > will decide between the People of Israel and the people of Ammon." > > 28 But the king of the Ammonites refused to listen to a word that Jephthah > had sent him. > > 29-31 God's Spirit came upon Jephthah. He went across Gilead and Manasseh, > went through Mizpah of > Gilead, and from there approached the Ammonites. Jephthah > made a vow before God: "If you give me a clear victory over the Ammonites, > then I'll give to God > whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me > when I return in one piece from among the Ammonites-I'll offer it up in a > sacrificial burnt > offering." > > 32-33 Then Jephthah was off to fight the Ammonites. And God gave them to > him. He beat them soundly, > all the way from Aroer to the area around Minnith as > far as Abel Keramim-twenty cities! A massacre! Ammonites brought to their > knees by the People of > Israel. > > 34-35 Jephthah came home to Mizpah. His daughter ran from the house to > welcome him home-dancing to > tambourines! She was his only child. He had no son or > daughter except her. When he realized who it was, he ripped his clothes, > saying, "Ah, dearest > daughter-I'm dirt. I'm despicable. My heart is torn to shreds. > I made a vow to God and I can't take it back!" > > 36 She said, "Dear father, if you made a vow to God, do to me what you > vowed; God did his part and > saved you from your Ammonite enemies." > > 37 And then she said to her father, "But let this one thing be done for > me. Give me two months to > wander through the hills and lament my virginity since > I will never marry, I and my dear friends." > > 38-39 "Oh yes, go," he said. He sent her off for two months. She and her > dear girlfriends went > among the hills, lamenting that she would never marry. At > the end of the two months, she came back to her father. He fulfilled the > vow with her that he had > made. She had never slept with a man. > > 39-40 It became a custom in Israel that for four days every year the young > women of Israel went out > to mourn for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite. > > Judges 12 > 1 The men of Ephraim mustered their troops, crossed to Zaphon, and said to > Jephthah, "Why did you > go out to fight the Ammonites without letting us go with > you? We're going to burn your house down on you!" > > 2-3 Jephthah said, "I and my people had our hands full negotiating with > the Ammonites. And I did > call to you for help but you ignored me. When I saw that > you weren't coming, I took my life in my hands and confronted the > Ammonites myself. And God gave > them to me! So why did you show up here today? Are you > spoiling for a fight with me?" > > 4 So Jephthah got his Gilead troops together and fought Ephraim. And the > men of Gilead hit them > hard because they were saying, "Gileadites are nothing > but half breeds and rejects from Ephraim and Manasseh." > > 5-6 Gilead captured the fords of the Jordan at the crossing to Ephraim. If > an Ephraimite fugitive > said, "Let me cross," the men of Gilead would ask, "Are > you an Ephraimite?" and he would say, "No." And they would say, "Say, > 'Shibboleth.'" But he would > always say, "Sibboleth"-he couldn't say it right. Then > they would grab him and kill him there at the fords of the Jordan. > Forty-two Ephraimite divisions > were killed on that occasion. > > 7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Jephthah the Gileadite died and was > buried in his city, Mizpah > of Gilead. > > Ibzan > 8-9 After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. He had thirty sons and > thirty daughters. He gave > his daughters in marriage outside his clan and brought > in thirty daughters-in-law from the outside for his sons. > > 10 He judged Israel seven years. Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem. > > Elon > 11-12 After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel. He judged Israel ten > years. Elon the Zebulunite > died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. > > Abdon > 13-15 After him, Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. He had > forty sons and thirty > grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel > eight years. Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at > Pirathon in the land of > Ephraim in the Amalekite hill country. > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
