Old Testament
Judges tells the story of a people who, settled in the land, abandon the LORD in a relentless cycle — sin, oppression, crying out, deliverance, and relapse worse than before. Again and again God answers their cry by raising up flawed, unlikely deliverers — Othniel, Ehud, Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, Samson — saving by his own strength through human weakness. Yet no judge can break the cycle, and the book bottoms out in idolatry and civil war under a fourfold refrain: 'In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.' Judges diagnoses the human heart and leaves its readers longing for a righteous King who can save permanently.
Open Judges in the Atlas →Work through Judges in the Atlas — passage by passage. Read the text, test your understanding, discover its themes, and watch how it connects across Scripture.