Judges runs on a loop: people misbehave, get conquered, cry out, get rescued by an unlikely hero, repeat, and each cycle gets a little darker and a little stranger than the last. By the end you’ve got a guy taking out an army with a donkey’s jawbone and a story so grim it doesn’t even get a tidy moral. We worked through all 21 chapters of the spiral.
You’ll also see 4 episodes marked Dig Deeper below. The show’s format is an unstudied first read, reactions and all, so those episodes are where the hosts go back into a book or chapters they already covered to chase down their own questions and pick up what they missed the first time through. They’re not listener Q&A, just the hosts grading their own homework.
25 episodes (21 read-through + 4 Dig Deeper) • Chapters 1–21 (complete) • Recorded 2022
Every Episode, In Order
- Judges Chapter 1
- Judges Chapter 2
- Judges Chapter 3
- Judges Chapter 4
- Judges Chapter 5
- [Dig Deeper] Judges Chapters 1–5
- Judges Chapter 6
- Judges Chapter 7
- Judges Chapter 8
- Judges Chapter 9
- Judges Chapter 10
- [Dig Deeper] Judges Chapters 6–10
- Judges Chapter 11
- Judges Chapter 12
- Judges Chapter 13
- Judges Chapter 14
- Judges Chapter 15
- [Dig Deeper] Judges Chapters 11–15
- Judges Chapter 16
- Judges Chapter 17
- Judges Chapter 18
- Judges Chapter 19
- Judges Chapter 20
- Judges Chapter 21
- [Dig Deeper] Judges Chapters 16–21
Contradictions We Found in Judges
Here are some of the contradictions we dug into in Judges (out of 16 we cataloged):
- Can God be seen?
- Can God be tempted?
- Can God stop iron chariots?
- Did the Israelites kill every male in Midian?
- How many gods are there?
- How should the Ammonites be treated?
- How should the Moabites be treated?
- Was Sisera murdered in his sleep?
- When was King Jabin killed?
- Who is the most blessed woman?
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