EVENING SERVICE Judges 8:29-9:57 English Standard Version (ESV) The Death of Gideon 29 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. 30 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring,[a] for he had many wives. 31 And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech. 32 And Gideon the son of Joash died…

EVENING SERVICE Judges 8:1-31 English Standard Version (ESV) Gideon Defeats Zebah and Zalmunna 8 Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely. 2 And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not…

EVENING SERVICE Judges 6:25-40 English Standard Version (ESV) 25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it 26 and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here,…

EVENING SERVICE Judges 6:11-24 English Standard Version (ESV) The Call of Gideon 11 Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him,…

EVENING SERVICE Judges 5:31-6:10 English Standard Version (ESV) 31 “So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!     But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years. Midian Oppresses Israel 6 The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lordgave them into the hand of…

EVENING SERVICE Judges 5 English Standard Version (ESV) The Song of Deborah and Barak 5 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day: 2 “That the leaders took the lead in Israel,     that the people offered themselves willingly,     bless the Lord! 3 “Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;     to the Lord I will sing;     I will make melody to the…

MORNING SERVICE Judges 4 English Standard Version (ESV) Deborah and Barak 4 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died. 2 And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. 3 Then the people of…

EVENING SERVICE Judges 3:31 English Standard Version (ESV) Shamgar 31 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.

MORNING SERVICE Judges 3:12-30 English Standard Version (ESV) Ehud 12 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord. 13 He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated…

EVENING SERVICE Judges 3:7-11 English Standard Version (ESV) Othniel 7 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth. 8 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people…