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The Book of Judges ends with a terrible story about a village within the tribal allotment of the Benjamin where the men demanded that a...

After Jephthah was given a victory by God, he rashly made a promise to offer as a sacrifice to God the first thing to come out of his...

This is a difficult story. The distance between our culture and the culture of the Israelites and surrounding people during the period of...

Read Judges Chapter 5. It is a psalm, that is, a song. The psalms were written to be sung or chanted back and forth by the worship leader...

You know the story of the children of Israel; God broke them out of captivity in Egypt through the work of Moses. There was the...

I said that we were ready to leave the Pentateuch in our survey of women with a story to tell, but I missed an important group (which, to...

God’s interest in socially marginalized people, especially widows, is clear throughout the Old Testament. I presented passages to this...

Before we leave the Pentateuch, that is, the first five books of the Bible (called in Swedish Mosesbuk 1, Mosesbuk 2, etc.), I have...

And now, as Paul Harvey used to say, for the rest of the story.   “ Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house...

The previous story of Tamar was a difficult read for modern Christians. The key points from the Bible’s perspective are that Judah left...

Dinah was a woman with a story to tell, but the biblical text never told that story. By contrast, Tamar is a woman with a story to tell,...

Dinah , the daughter of Jacob and Leah, had a voice that was never heard. The text has silenced her. As the story unfolds, it is the men...

I would guess that, while you may have heard a song about Dinah, you have never heard a sermon about Dinah. There is a story in the Bible...

Abraham’s brother Nahor had stayed back in Syria, more often known as Aram in the Bible. Aram was the plateau region of upper...

The stories of Abraham and his son Isaac are equally the stories of Sarah and Isaac’s wife: Rebekah.   Has there ever been a time when...

“Cast out, old man, cast out,” Sarah said. She was complaining to her husband about Hagar. Hagar is the original woman with a handmaid’s...

Sarah had a baby boy, and she is sharing her joy with everyone around her who is laughing with her at the irony. Wouldn’t it be nice if...

Stories, even accounts of real events, must be composed for the teller to present to the listener. To become lasting lore, stories are...

More than once, God visited and repeated his covenant promise to Abram (Genesis 12, 15, 17 and 18). We love to recall Abram’s response...

The Patience and Obedience of Sarai   Sarai and Abram have a problem. They are childless. God has promised something better, but God...