Day 94 - Saturday in Holy Week
Read | Saturday | April 4 | Judges 11:29 – 15:20 Date | From the Conquest to the Kings, the period of the Judges extends some 200 to 300 years. Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 | Click here Reading | Abimelech asks for victory from God and makes a rash promise - his daughter is the one to be killed, she wanders for two months with friends and then was executed. Everyone laments her for four days per year. War with Ephrim. Another series of judges rise up as Israel forgets God doing evil and the Philistines conquered them. Zorah bears a son - a nazirite - as promised by an angel, interaction with the angel - Samson was born; He grows and finally marries the Timnite woman and not from his tribe - riddle, killing of men, attacks Philistines with foxes; they kill wife and father in law; he seek revenge and sets to slaughter them by a jawbone of a donkey; God gives him water. Source ...