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24 illustrations across all 21 chapters
The Philistines The Philistines, situated on the southeast coastal plain of the Mediterranean, were part of a larger group of maritime immigrants from the Aegean area known by the Egyptians as the “Sea Peoples.” They settled on Palestine’s lower coastal...
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Deborah Deborah the prophet was one of the early judges of Israel, a woman of integrity and devotion to the Lord. As a prophet, she received divine revelation; as a judge, she arbitrated legal disputes. She could aptly be characterized...
Samson Samson is a prime illustration of God’s using a person for good in spite of that person’s indifference and sin. Samson was a rescuer of Israel without even trying or caring. He did not seem to care about his...
Gideon Gideon, an Israelite judge, was the son of Joash, from the tribe of Manasseh. Gideon described his clan as the least powerful in Manasseh and himself as the least important in the clan. His story tells how God can...
These phases repeat with such regularity that he compares them to *the white and red lights and darkness reappearing in a revolving lighthouse lantern, or figures recurring in a circulating decimal fraction*.
The human mind naturally divides into two warring camps.
The service of Elohim is exclusive; it admits no interference, competition, or divided homage.
Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" (Judges 5:28).
Exell, in his 1887 *Biblical Illustrator*, unpacks this summons with Victorian precision: we must arouse the bodily powers first.
She was nourished upon the Mosaic Law, moving through a world thick with heathen cruelties and mysterious divine terrors.
Yet Maclaren observes a deeper mercy in this barbarity: "Pitiable as the loss was, Samson was better blind than seeing.
He does not merely condemn; He first enumerates the favours which He had shown Israel, recalling the conditions of the covenant: no entangling alliances with the inhabitants, no tolerance for their idolatry.
Her crosses and losses in Moab became God's instrument of instruction, turning her soul from a cursed country toward the blessed land of promise.
Yet God commanded Gideon to steal into the enemy camp on the very night his army felt their weakness most acutely.
Jehovah could have crushed all Canaanites in one decisive blow, yet He withheld this miracle for spiritual pedagogy.
In 1921, a Welsh coal miner named Evan Griffiths lost both his legs in a tunnel collapse outside Pontypridd. His wife had left. His drinking...
Surrounded in open field by six hundred Philistine desperadoes bent on plunder and death—not cornered at Thermopylae where numbers meant nothing—he wielded only an oxgoad against overwhelming odds.
When your interest, your feelings, your wants, nay, even your future independence are on one side, and the plain dictates of duty and religion on the other, then it is that you must "be very courageous" and not turn aside...
When Joshua's leadership (30 years), Samuel's judgeship (30 years), and Saul's reign (40 years, Acts 13:21) are subtracted from the broader 240–260 year span between Israel's entrance into Canaan and David's coronation, this interval remains.
In 2003, the city of Drachten in the Netherlands tried something radical. Traffic engineer Hans Monderman convinced officials to remove nearly all traffic signs, signals,...
In 1707, four British warships struck the rocks off the Scilly Isles, drowning nearly two thousand sailors in a single night. The fleet's navigator, Sir...
In 2009, the town of Drachten in the Netherlands tried something radical. Traffic engineers removed nearly all the stop signs, traffic lights, and lane markings...
In October 2023, rescue workers in Hatay, Turkey — still clearing wreckage from the February earthquake — recovered a cell phone from beneath a collapsed...
In 1961, a young attorney named Thurgood Marshall sat in his small office in New York, preparing yet another civil rights brief, when he received...