2023.03.20 (Mon) Day 79 - Judges 9-10
Chapter 9
Abimelech (1-57)
Chapter 10
Tola (1-2)
Jair (3-5)
Jephthah (6-18
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Judges 9–10
So woke up this morning and I listen to Judges 9–10 because I to struggle with the names, and the correct Annunciation of them. I find it easy to listen to the section. Just as I find it easy to talk into my phone while doing my reflection. hoping my phone doesn’t twist my words.
Judge is 9–10. Doesn’t surprise me, it’s more of the cycle of we sin, God forgives us, God sends us a leader, to teach us, we repent, the leader dies, can we sin again. Repeat . 
Reflection
I listen to this early today, and then I listen to it again at lunch, and I just listened once again. I’m trying to get…
The book of Judges has been very difficult to read with all the names and trying to keep straight who is who and which tribe they came from? So I decided that I would listen to it instead of trying to read it that helped a little. God seems to ask very little of them to put him first and the only God , still they can’t seem to do it.
They go for a few years, doing good and listening to God but then they fall. After years of chaos, they cry out to the Lord and beg for help repentance on their sin, hoping God will forgive them once again. Again, and again the same situation happens. Will…
The book of Judges is filled with accounts of people in authority...judges, rulers, military leaders. Some of these people, like Deborah were God-fearing and some like Abimelek, were ruthless.
This is a difficult book for me to read, not only because of its complexity, but because of my past. When I think about people in authority in the Bible, I naturally gravitate toward thinking they should be good people looking out for the interests of the people they are asked to serve. And when I think about people in ministry today, I think the same thing.
Years ago, when I was a little girl, I went to talk to a priest at the church I went to. Father Stanley would…