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PHall | November 18, 2025
Was Israel Having A King Sinful? A common position is that Israel wanting a King was sinful. Israel even confesses “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, so that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil by asking for ourselves a king” (quoted 1 Samuel 12:19). I […]
PHall | November 18, 2025
Why Are We Told the Story of Jael? There is only one woman in the Bible who directly killed a man. Her name was Jael. She hammered a tentpeg into the skull of Sisera (Judges 4). Why are we told this story? Considering she is the only woman in the Bible to have killed a […]
PHall | August 17, 2025
A – ABIMELECH SON OF JERUBBAAL (vv.1-3) B – WORTHLESS AND RECKLESS MEN (v.4) C – 70 BROTHERS KILLED (v.5a) D – JOTHAM DOESN’T DIE – MEMORIAL STONE – OAK (vv.5b-6) E – TREES, BRANCHES, AND FIRE (vv.7-22) F – AMBUSH (vv.23-25) G – GAAL AND SHECHEM CONSPIRE AGAINST ABIMELECH […]
PHall | July 1, 2025
What went wrong and why?Compare the first and last verses of Judges and the gist of the book is revealed: 1:1 – “The Israelites inquired of the LORD” 21:25 – “Every one did what was right in in his own eyes.” Subsequent generations descended into a moral morass. They stopped inquiring of the Lord and […]
PHall | December 19, 2024
Hands in the Deborah Pericope (I’m writing a chapter on Deborah in my book on The Genesis of Gender Roles, and this is just extra thoughts not in the book) The word “hand” is one of the key words in the Deborah narrative, both metaphorically and physically. Hand means “power”. God’s hand is the ultimate […]
PHall | November 21, 2024
Hands in the Deborah Pericope (I’m writing a chapter on Deborah in my book on The Genesis of Gender Roles, and this is just extra thoughts not in the book) The word “hand” is one of the key words in the Deborah narrative, both metaphorically and physically. Hand means “power”. God’s hand is the ultimate […]
PHall | October 13, 2023
Is Jesus Worth More than Our Jobs? The Philistine leaders promised Delilah 1,100 pieces of silver from each of them. How many were there? Don’t know (Judges 16). The Jewish leaders promised Judas 30 pieces of silver. Total. The price of an injured slave. Samson was wrecking their nation, including their economic well-being – Then […]
PHall | July 24, 2022
Learn to Fight The book of Judges teaches many expected, uncomfortable lessons such as we are often the source of our problems. However, an unexpected lesson I recently learned helps us deal with the problem of pain and suffering when it’s not our fault. Specifically, why does God allow us to go through difficult times? […]
PHall | March 4, 2021
PHall | January 17, 2020
I’ll confess. I like studying the book of Judges for the same reason I liked studying the Tudor-Stuart monarchy – horrible characters are never boring! When during the Judges, “Everyone did what was right their own eyes” is the philosophy of life, there is no telling what is creeping out of people’s heart. And yet….During […]