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Judges 8 — Gideon’s courageous peak then idolatrous slide

Daniel Agee shows how the initially unassuming judge, or champion leader, of Israel called Gideon completed the victory God gave his 300 men over the 180,000-strong Midianite invading army. However, the lure of idolatry was so strong in the land of Israel that even Gideon’s best intentions to remain humble and pure before God unraveled starting with the attempted creation of a monarchy by his son.

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Judges 7

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/071215%20Judges%207.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:02 — )Subscribe: RSSThe account of Gideon’s 300 and their victory over an 185,000-man army is well-known to Bible students. However, Daniel Agee looks into an important lesson in this chapter God has the time of year — seemingly just after Passover — this event happened.

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Judges 6 — Gideon, the beginning of a new type of leader

With the beginning of the account of Gideon, we meet a new type of judge for Israel and symbolic of kings to follow. Gideon in some ways parallels Moses in his interactions with the angel of the LORD in boldly asking for signs via the fleece.