Faith & Reason Nexus

The Sin Problem in the Book of Judges

THREE THINGS SIN WILL ALWAYS DO

1. Sin will always take one farther than he wants to go. Judges 16:4-20

2. Sin will always keep one longer than he wants to stay. Judges 16:2

3. Sin will always cost one more than he wanted to pay. Judges 16:4-20

The Judges

• OTHINEL Judah 40 years. Judges 3:9-11
• EHUD Benjamin 80 years. Judges 3:15-30
• SHAMGAR Judah 10 years. Judges 3:31, Mesopotamians 8 years. Moabites, Ammonites, Amalekites 18 years Philistines.
• DEBORAH Ephraim 40 years. Judges 4:4-5:31, Canaanites 20 years, BARAK Naphtali.
• GIDEON Manasseh 40 years Judges 6:7-8:35, Midianites, Amalekites.
• ABIMELECH Manasseh 3 years. Judges 9:1-57.
• TOLA Issachar 23 years. Judges 10:1-2, Midianites, Amalekites.
• JAIR Manasseh 22 years. Judges 10:3-5 Midianites, Amalekites.
• JEPHTHAH Manasseh 6 years. Judges 11:1-12:7, Ammonites.
• IBZAN Judah 7 years. Judges 12:8-10, Ammonites 18 years.
• ELON Zebulun 10 years. Judges 12:11-12, Ammonites.
• ABDON Ephraim 8 years. Judges 12:13-15, Ammonites.
• SAMSON 20 years. Judges 13:2-16:31, Philistines.
• ELI Dan 40 years
• SAMUEL Ephraim
• JOEL
• ABIJAH

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Judges 21:25.