Course · 8 lessons · Judges, Ruth and 1 Samuel
The Judges
When Israel cried to the LORD, He raised up deliverers: Deborah, Gideon and Samson. Ruth’s loyal love, Hannah’s prayer, and a boy who said “Speak; for thy servant heareth.”
- 1Deborah and BarakJudges 4:1–24 · 5:1–3 · Mount TaborFor twenty years Jabin king of Canaan, with his nine hundred chariots of iron, troubled Israel, and the people cried to the LORD. Deborah, a…
- 2Gideon’s FleeceJudges 6:11–40 · OphrahThe Midianites troubled Israel, and Gideon was secretly threshing wheat by the winepress when the angel of the LORD sat under an oak and said, “The…
- 3Gideon’s Three HundredJudges 7:1–25 · The valley of JezreelGideon gathered thousands of men against the Midianites, but God said there were too many, so that no one could boast, “Mine own hand hath saved…
- 4Samson’s StrengthJudges 13:1–5 · 16:4–30 · GazaBefore Samson was born, the angel of the LORD said he would be a Nazarite unto God: no razor would come on his head, and he would begin to deliver…
- 5Ruth and NaomiRuth 1:1–22 · The road to BethlehemWhen there was a famine, Naomi’s family went to live in Moab, and there her husband and her two sons died. Naomi decided to go home to Bethlehem and…
- 6Ruth in the Fields of BoazRuth 2:1–4:17 · The fields of BoazRuth went out to glean barley behind the reapers, and she came to the field of Boaz, a kinsman of Naomi’s husband. Boaz was kind to her because of…
- 7Hannah’s Prayer1 Samuel 1:1–28 · ShilohEvery year Elkanah’s family went up to worship the LORD at Shiloh, and Hannah was very sad because she had no children. In the temple she prayed and…
- 8Speak, LORD1 Samuel 3:1–21 · ShilohThe child Samuel served the LORD in the temple at Shiloh with old Eli the priest. One night, as he lay down where the ark of God was, the LORD…