Conquest of Promised Land - incomplete.
God's instructions forgotten - result.
Judges given.

1 - Judges
chapters
1-2

Next generation: did not know the Lord.
Other gods.
Great distress.

2 - Judges
chapter
2

Micah, silver, Idol, shrine.
Wandering Levite
Tribe of Dan
Household gods.

3 - Judges
chapters
17-18

Levite's concubine - Gibea - rape - death.
Call to arms.
Benjaminites all but destroyed.

4 - Judges
chapters
19-20

Wives for Benjaminites.
Girls at Shiloh.
More disobedience.
OTHNIEL, EHUD, SHAMGAR.

5 - Judges
chapters
21, 3

DEBORAH
Sisera killed by Jael with a tent peg.

6 - Judges
chapters
4-5

GIDEON
Israelites hiding in caves.
Raided by Midianites.
fleece - wet/dry.

7 - Judges
chapter
6

The Lord, Gideon, and 300 men.
Torches and trumpets.
Gideon's Ephod a snare.

8 - Judges
chapters
7-8

Gideon dies, more failures.
Sons assassinated - revenge attack.
TOLA, JAIR

9 - Judges
chapters
8-10

Falure, oppression, non-gods, Ammonites attack.
JEPHTAH successful - sacrifices daughter.
IBZAN, ELON, ABDON

10 - Judges
chapters
10-12

SAMSON
Strange choice - flawed character.

11 - Judges
chapters
13-14

Samson's success and failure:
Foxes - donkey's jawbone - haircut - death.

12 - Judges
chapter
15