Judges 10 - Jephthah's Tragic Vow | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church
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Show Notes
In this video listen to Judges 10 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.
In Judges 10 we meet the sixth and seventh judges and very little is said about them. Tola is the sixth judge. There is no military victory described but he is said to have arose to save Israel. This is interesting because it highlights the idea of salvation as being much more significant than just a military one. Because of his leadership, the slide away from God is halted.
Salvation in God’s mind is always a spiritual thing, and the real bondage isn’t a military issue. THe seventh Judge is Jair. He had 30 sons who rode 30 donkeys and he ruled 30 cities. Probably he used his thirty sons and their thirty donkeys to rule the thirty cities. But interestingly the idea of a donkey being associated with kingship is found early in Israel.
Jesus later rides a donkey as a sign of his kingship. In the NT, Jesus heals the daughter of Jairus - the same name roughly speaking. It means he enlightens. And some Bible experts think it was during the time of Jair, that the story of Ruth happened. After these two judges are briefly mentioned, the scene is set for the rest of the book of Judges and in particular the two key judges to come, Sampson and Jepthah.
Their two main enemies were the Philistines and the Ammonites. Sometimes we read of the juges and get an impression that they are chronological in order, but Sampson and Jepthah who are the two final most prominent judges, seem to have overlapped. This helps explain why the ages of Judges add up to over 400 years, but in reality only covers a period of about 350 years.