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Judges 9-10

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Time will run out Abimelech became a king by killing his own brothers with the help of Shechemites, citizens of the Shechem. Only the youngest, Jotham was able to run away. But before he ran away for good he told the people that Abimelech is not the right king and he reminded the people of his father, "For my father [Gideon] fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian, and you have risen up against my father's house this day and have killed his sons." (verse 17,18) Not too long after the citizens of Shechem started turning against Abimelech saying "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him?... is not Zebul his officer?" (verse 28) Zebul heard all this and passed it along to Abimelech. This started a war between Abimelech, his men versus the city of Shechem. Abimelech won this battle, and he went into neighboring cities to also destroy them. HE went from one city to the next killing women and ...
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Joshua 7

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Cleanse In the last chapter Joshua and the people captured Jericho, and God through Joshua have said not to take anything other than gold and silver for God's treasury. It was a huge victory but people of Israel still had more battles in front of them and the next city was Ai, it was significantly smaller than Jericho and people were so confident that they told Joshua that not all people should go. "So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before men of Ai" (verse 4) After this terrible loss people were in a sort of a shock " The hearts of the people melted and became as water" (verse 5) Joshua had no idea why this was happening so he was devastated as well as all the people, he himself and the elders of Israel fell on their faces before the ark of Lord until the evening. And God hear their cries and God said "Israel have sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of t...
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