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NAME |
YEARS
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS |
RECORD
|
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Othniel |
40 |
۩
Brother of
Caleb.
۩
Helped Israel
defeat King Cushan Rishathaim of Northern Syria and
brought Israel forty years of peace.
۩
Defeated the
Arameans; the spirit of the Lord was on him |
Judg 3.7-11 |
|
Ehud |
80 |
۩
Left-handed
۩
Killed
King Eglon of Moab by trickery
and defeated the Moabites, who
had joined with the Amalekites to attack Israel. |
Judg 3.12-30 |
|
Shamgar |
10 |
۩
Rescued Israel
by killing 600 Philistines. |
Judg 3.31 |
|
Deborah & Barak |
40 |
۩
Woman tribal
leader, both military and legal.
۩
Barak was
military leader under Deborah.
۩
Defeated the
army of Canaanite King Jabin of Hazor and his commander
Sisera.
۩
Jael, a Kenite
woman, killed Sisera as he fled. |
Judg 4.1--5.31 |
|
Gideon |
40 |
۩
Came from a
family of Baal worshippers.
Built an altar for worshiping
the LORD and pulled down the altar where his father had
worshiped the Canaanite god Baal.
۩
Afraid to trust
God, portrayed as an arrogant coward, fleece God
for confirmation.
۩
God gave him a
plan to defeat the Midianites who had joined with the
Amalekites to steal Israel's livestock and crops.
God reduce the army from 22,000 to 300 men, and they won
by blowing a trumpet, and saying, The sword of the LORD,
and of Gideon. Also called Jerubbaal.
۩
Honored the
LORD by refusing to be made king.
Ended up worshipping Baal.
۩
Abimelech, his son of a concubine, kill
his seventy sons, and tried to be king, by the men of Shechem. |
Judg 6.1--8.35 |
|
Tola |
23 |
۩
Rescue
Israel with very little
information recorded
about this judge's accomplishments. |
Judg 10.1,2 |
|
Jair |
22 |
۩
A little
information recorded about
this judge's accomplishments.
۩
Had thirty
sons, each one in charge of a town in Gilead. |
Judg 10.3-5 |
|
Jephthah |
6 |
۩
Defeated the
Ammonites who had invaded Gilead. Battled the army of
the Israelite tribe of Ephraim.
۩
Son of an harlot,
illegitimate child and an
outcast
۩
Fought against
the Ammonites
۩
Made a rash
vow
that led to the sacrifice of his only child (Daughter) |
Judg 11.1--12.7 |
|
Ibzan |
7 |
۩
A little
information recorded about
this judge's accomplishments.
۩
Had thirty
daughters and thirty sons. |
Judg 12.8-10 |
|
Elon |
10 |
۩
A little
information recorded about
this judge's accomplishments. |
Judg 12.11,12 |
|
Abdon |
8 |
۩
A little
information recorded about
this judge's accomplishments.
۩
Had forty sons
and thirty grandsons. |
Judg 12.13-15 |
|
Samson |
20 |
۩
Born to a
barren woman (Manoah)
by promise. He was
a Nazarite from birth,
but broke his vows.
۩
He was a
womanizer and a drunk, who loved strange women.
۩
His wife was taken from him and given "to
his companion". For this he took revenge by using three
hundred foxes, and turned tail to tail, and put a
firebrand in the midst between two tails to the burning
the "standing corn of the Philistines". Who, in their
turn, in revenge "burnt her and her father with fire."
He then took revenge again, and smote them hip and thigh
with a great slaughter:
۩
He
took a jawbone of an ass, and slew a thousand men
therewith.
۩
God
helped him bring relief from the Philistines. He
had a fatal attraction to
Delilah, thus he broke his covenant and told her
of it.
۩
Died by committing suicide in the temple
of the philistine, thus killing more at his death than
during his lifetime. |
Judg
13.1--16.31 |
|
Eli |
40 |
۩
High Priest &
Judge
۩
He failed to reprove his sons Hophni and
Phinehas, who grossly misconducted themselves.
۩
Sent the Ark of Covenant to war with
Israel against the Philistines who were defeated, by a
great slaughter. The Ark was taken by the Philistines.
۩
When the news came back to Eli,
sitting outside the temple that there has also been a
great slaughter among the people, his sons were dead,
and the ark of God is taken, the old man, whose eyes
were stiffened, fell backward from off his seat and
died, being ninety and eight years old. |
1 Sam 1--4:18 |
|
Samuel |
12 |
۩
Priest, Prophet
& Judge
۩
Son of Hannah (who was barren)
after weaning, consecrated him to the Lord as a
perpetual Nazarite.
۩
It was written of him that "The child
Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord,
and also with men".
۩
Heard the voice of God calling from he
was a young child, not knowing God he went to Eli
thrice, who then told him it was God. That he should
answer "Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth."
۩
Anointed Saul to be king of Israel under direction of
God.
۩
Also anointed David to be king, after
God's grace left Saul. |
1 Sam 1:20 -- 20:28 |
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