TODAY’S BIBLE READING CHALLENGE:
Judges 19:1-20:48
John 3:22-4:3
Psalm 104:24-35
Proverbs 14:22-24
Judges 19:12 — It will not be until 2 Samuel 5:6-10 that David’s armies would capture Jerusalem and it would become an Israelite city.
Judges 19:15 — No man would show him hospitality. We see hospitality encouraged in Isaiah 58:6-7, Matthew 25:35, Romans 12:13, Hebrews 13:2, 1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 5:9-10, Titus 1:8, and 1 Peter 4:9. While no command of the Torah mandates hospitality (only the New Testament does), the patriarch Job clearly practiced it (Job 31:32).
Judges 19:22 — These were Benjamites (Judges 19:16) speaking almost exactly what the Sodomites spoke to Lot (Genesis 19:5).
- Belial sons of Gibeah: “Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.”
- Sodomites: “Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.”
Judges 19:24 — Lot offered his two daughters to the Sodomite mob (Genesis 19:8); the Ephraimite offers his daughter and the Levite’s concubine.
Judges 20:2 — Mizpeh is Jephthah’s hometown.
Judges 20:48 — 65,000 people died in this first Civil War of Israel. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
John 3:30 — Seven words that make a great life verse.
Psalm 104:34 — How often do you meditate on the LORD?
Proverbs 14:23 — As Patch the Pirate said, “Your walk talks, and your talk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks!”
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