Moral Chaos and Corruption in the Book of Judges
Explore the moral chaos, corruption, and degradation described in the Book of Judges, highlighting the consequences of turning away from God and the resulting societal decay. The narrative depicts a time of spiritual decline and moral depravity among the Israelites, emphasizing the importance of faithfulness and obedience to avoid the pitfalls of corruption. Dive into the unsettling accounts of betrayal, loss of societal values, and the disturbing events that unfolded when moral boundaries were disregarded.
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Total Corruption Joshua 19 21
The best of people lack conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity. William Yeats Does this in any way describe you?
Judges 2:1012 After them another generation rose up who did not know the Lord or the works he had done for Israel. The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord s sight. They worshiped the Baals and abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt.
Covenant Commitment > Compromise > Corruption > Chaos In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever seemed right to him. Judges 21:25
Judges 19 1 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite staying in a remote part of the hill country of Ephraim acquired a woman from Bethlehem in Judah as his concubine. 2 But she was unfaithful to him and left him for her father s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She was there for four months. 3 Then her husband got up and followed her to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had his servant with him and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him to her father s house, and when the girl s father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
Judges 19 12 But his master replied to him, We will not stop at a foreign city where there are no Israelites. Let s move on to Gibeah. 13 Come on, he said, let s try to reach one of these places and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.
Judges 19 27 When her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went out to leave on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, collapsed near the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold. 28 Get up, he told her. Let s go. But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
Judges 19 29 When he entered his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and then sent her throughout the territory of Israel. 30 Everyone who saw it said, Nothing like this has ever happened or has been seen since the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt until now. Think it over, discuss it, and speak up!
Romans 1:2224 Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles. Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.
Judges 20 15 On that day the Benjaminites mobilized twenty-six thousand armed men from their cities, besides seven hundred fit young men rallied by the inhabitants of Gibeah. 16 There were seven hundred fit young men who were left-handed among all these troops; all could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
Judges 20 35 The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 men of Benjamin; all were armed. 36 Then the Benjaminites realized they had been defeated.
Judges 21 13 The whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjaminites who were at Rimmon Rock. 14 Benjamin returned at that time, and Israel gave them the women they had kept alive from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough for them.
Judges 21 20 Then they commanded the Benjaminites, Go and hide in the vineyards. 21 Watch, and when you see the young women of Shiloh come out to perform the dances, each of you leave the vineyards and catch a wife for yourself from the young women of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Without the Word of God to guide us and the Son of God to rule over us, we are left to ourselves to determine what is right and what is wrong.
