Day 59: November 14, 2025 – Judges 1-5 and Psalm 3

This may be the most difficult time in the life of the people of Israel outside of any of the times that they were taken into captivity, like Egypt, and Babylon, and Assyrian. Even in these instances we see that they are taken captive by the Canaanites and forced into slavery. But it seems like every generation God would raise up a judge who would be ruler over the nation and then there would be peace in the land and their hardship would cease for as long as that judge was alive. But once that judge dies then the mantra we find is: everyone did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. This happens after every single judge that comes and rules the land.

My favorite judge is Deborah who is mentioned here because she is definitely unique. Not only as a woman judge but as someone who has a commander under her who will go to battle unless she goes to battle first. As a result he doesn’t get to the the most fun part of battle, which is killing the opposing side’s commander. Sisera is eventually killed by a woman just as Deborah had predicted. But still, Barak and Deborah are able to sing together a victory song, so we have that.