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The author’s aim was to explain the text accurately, to clarify the geographical and historical references in Judges and to draw forth from the narrative and the inspired Word the spiritual lessons designed by the Divine Author. He believed that ‘the histories in Holy Scripture are wonderfully framed by their Divine Author to set forth spiritual and everlasting truths for all ages, and especially to typify Him in whom all history, type, and prophecy find their center – Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today, and for ever‘ (Heb. 13:8)
| Table of Contents | ||
| The Title and Subject: The Special Office of the Judges | 1 | |
| Design of the Book | 2-6 | |
| Historical Truthfulness | 7 | |
| Date of Authorship | 8 | |
| Divisions- | ||
| I Introduction | 8 | |
| II The body of the work | 9 | |
| III Appendix- | 9 | |
| CHAPTER I | ||
| Concert of Judah and Simeon against the Canaanites and Perizzites: consultation of Jehovah | 12, 14 | |
| Adonibezek the captor caught, and paid in kind | 13, 16 | |
| God still known by His judgments | 17 | |
| The cases wherein God requites not now, necessitate His future judgment | 18 | |
| The Reward of whole-heartedness, and punishment of indecision | 18, 34 | |
| CHAPTER II | ||
| Reward of whole-heartedness | 29 | |
| Punishment of Indecision- | 34 | |
| 1 Jehovah’s threat before punishing- | 37 | |
| 2 Effect of Jehovah’s threat- | 38 | |
| CHAPTER III | ||
| God’s epiphanies and man’s apostasies: mercy rejoiceth against judgment | 39, 46 | |
| Israel’s apostasy, punishment, and deliverance in answer to prayer Illustrating God’s righteousness, faithfulness, and grace | 40 | |
| Israel’s adherence to the covenant under Joshua and the elders who had seen Jehovah’s mighty acts | 49 | |
| Israel’s relapse into idolatry: successive steps in their fall: cause of the evil | 51 | |
| The same among ourselves | 52 | |
| God’s righteous indignation, and retributive punishment of Israel’s apostasy | 53 | |
| Jehovah’s compassion on Israel’s distress, and interposition | 54 | |
| Israel’s relapse to corruption after the death of each judge | 55 | |
| Jehovah’s resolution to stay Israel’s victories, and leave Canaanites to prove Israel | 55 | |
| The Lord still left them, to try Israel | 56 | |
| The Israelites, when thus proved, failed | 57 | |
| Chronology of the Judges | 7, 58 | |
| Occasion of raising up the first judge | 59 | |
| Eglon and Ehud, Shamgar and the Philistines | 61 | |
| 1 Israel’s apostasy, chastisement by Eglon, and penitent cry: Jehovah’s deliverance of Israel by Ehud | 66 | |
| 2 Application of the spiritual lesson to ourselves- | ||
| CHAPTER IV | ||
| Israel’s deliverance by Deborah and Barak | 76 | |
| CHAPTER V | ||
| Song of Deborah and Barak | 84 | |
| The bondage: the answer to prayer: the conflict and victory: the thanksgiving | 94 | |
| 1 The bondage-(1) its origin: (2) its severity | 94, 95 | |
| 2 The answer to prayer | 96 | |
| 3 The conflict and the victory: the instruments of gaining it: willing volunteers | 97 | |
| 4 The thanksgiving | 98 | |
| CHAPTER VI | ||
| Israel’s oppression by Midian | 102 | |
| Gideon and the fleece | 111 | |
| Second stage in the times of the Judges, from Gideon to Jair, 95 years | 113 | |
| 1 Occasion of the theophany of Jehovah to Gideon | 113 | |
| 2 Affliction the instrument of correction | 114 | |
| 3 Epiphany to Gideon | 114 | |
| 4 Boldness for God brings its own reward | 115 | |
| 5 God’s Spirit qualifies the weakest for work, and guarantees success | 116 | |
| 6 Weak faith craves a sign, Jehovah vouchsafes it: dew on the fleece | 117 | |
| CHAPTER VII | ||
| Gideon’s victory over Midian: Jehovah’s strength made perfect in weakness | 127 | |
| CHAPTER VIII | ||
| Gideon’s victory over self, preliminary to his complete conquest of Midian, and chastisement of churlish scoffers | 135 | |
| The defeat of Midian, a type of the overthrow of Satan’s kingdom | 141 | |
| Final triumph of the meek | 144 | |
| Gideon’s refusal to rule, because of loyalty to God: his deviation from God’s law bears deadly fruit | 148 | |
| CHAPTER IX | ||
| Abimelech’s successful usurpation through murder and conspiracy | 152 | |
| God’s retributive righteousness illustrated in the contrasted issues of faithfulness and apostasy, even in this world | 165 | |
| 1 Gideon’s unambitious spirit | 165 | |
| 2 Gideon’s great error | 167 | |
| 3 Israel’s apostasy punished, not as heretofore by foreign oppressors, but by internal strife | 169 | |
| CHAPTER X | ||
| Times of peace under Tola and Jair: times of trouble through apostasy: deliverance under Jephthah | 179 | |
| CHAPTER XI | ||
| Jephthah | 186 | |
| CHAPTER XII | ||
| Jephthah | 197 | |
| Peace the fruit of righteousness: trouble through sin: deliverance upon penitence | 199 | |
| 1 Tola’s rule | 199 | |
| 2 Jair’s rule | 199 | |
| 3 Third period of the times of the Judges under Jephthah and Samson | 200 | |
| 4 Israel’s double sin, and its double punishment | 200 | |
| 5 Israel’s repentance | 201 | |
| 6 Jephthah’s appointment as head and deliverer | 202 | |
| 7 Jephthah’s appeal to right, and then to force, against Ammon | 202 | |
| 8 Jephthah’s vow | 203 | |
| 9 Its mode of fulfilment | 203 | |
| 10 Jephthah’s chastisement of Ephraim’s pride | 206 | |
| 11 Jephthah a type of the Lord Jesus | 206 | |
| Brief seasons of rest: Philistine oppression: Divine announcement of Samson’s birth | 209 | |
| CHAPTER XIII | ||
| A quarter of a century of peace, followed by chastisement for apostasy: divine announcement and birth of the deliverer | 215 | |
| 1 Fruit of conflict | 215 | |
| 2 Sin and sorrow twin sisters | 216 | |
| 3 Grace superabounding where sin abounded | 217 | |
| 4 Peculiarity of Samson’s judgeship, and its spiritual lesson | 217 | |
| 5 Significance of the Nazarite vow | 219 | |
| 6 Consecration must begin with parents, and thence flow to children | 220 | |
| 7 Our time of need, God’s time of help: when saved ourselves, we seek to save others | 221 | |
| 8 The Angel of Jehovah, the Man of God | 221 | |
| 9 God revealed especially in Jesus’ sacrifice | 222 | |
| 10 God’s past grace the pledge of present and future salvation | 223 | |
| 11 Samson the type of Messiah | 224 | |
| CHAPTER XIV | ||
| Samson’s culpable weakness overruled to inflict his first blow on the Philistine oppressors | 226 | |
| CHAPTER XV | ||
| Samson’s further exploits with weak instruments, in the face of strong enemies and unfaithful friends: God’s strength perfected in man’s weakness | 232 | |
| CHAPTER XVI | ||
| Samson’s risk with one bad woman, and ruin through another | 238 | |
| Samson himself a riddle, and the riddle of Samson | 245 | |
| CHAPTER XVII | ||
| Introduction of idolatry | 264 | |
| CHAPTER XVIII | ||
| Extension of idolatry from one family to a whole tribe | 269 | |
| Introduction of idolatry: how it began after Joshua’s death | 278 | |
| CHAPTER XIX | ||
| Awful crime of Gibeah | 295 | |
| CHAPTER XX | ||
| The growth of sin in the absence of law: its fatal issue | 308 | |
| 1 The blessings of law and civil government illustrated by the evils flowing from their absence | 308 | |
| 2 Idolatry the parent of immorality | 308 | |
| 3 The evil begins in the church; then spreads in the world; then follows judgement | 309 | |
| 4 Further lessons from the story of the Levite | 311 | |
| 5 The sin of Gibeah | 312 | |
| 6 God’s judicial vengeance to be executed by Israel and on Israel | 315 | |
| 7 Typical aspects of the history | 320 | |
| Final triumph of justice over the transgressors; narrow escape of Benjamin from extinction | 322 | |
| CHAPTER XXI | ||
| Cruel deeds entail bitter remorse: Israel’s effort to mitigate the evil to the Benjamite survivors | 329 | |
| Self-abasement and prayer the secret of mitigating disaster | 334 | |
| 1 The saint’s way of victory | 334 | |
| 2 The way of destruction | 335 | |
| 3 The way of escape | 337 | |
| 4 The way of mercy towards the fallen | 337 |
Hardback 350 pages
Additional information
| Weight | 64 oz |
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| Format | book |
| Author | Andrew Fausset |
| Condition | New |
| Publisher | Banner of Truth |
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