What was Achin's sin?
Hoarding loot that belonged to God.
Why did god demand genocide on the Cannaanites?
1. To avoid religious contamination
2. To avoid future political rebellion
Cannannites worshiped fertility Gods to make
things grow.
1. crops
2. animals
3. children
Everything connected
Cannannites worshiped sex God Baal-Storm God
Storm God impregnates the earth mother Ashteroth(had very little recorded
development of face instead emphasized her
womanly figure.
They would have sex rituals to bring on
fertility for everything.
Isrealites were tempted by these acts of
worshiping other Gods Why?
1. They worshiped Yahweh he was just
a "sky god." 'Yahweh seemed ancient
2. Liked the idea of worshiping specific
Gods for specific reasons(crops).
3. Baal & Ashteroth specialized in agricul.
important for when Isreal began farming
Isrealites started interracial marriages.
Isreal is not being faithful to Yahweh.
JUDGES
Isreal worships other Gods and forgets Yahweh
Yahweh sends foreign oppressors (Duet 28)
Isreal repents
God sends a judge who deliver Isreal
Judge rules for a time and dies and it cycles
all over again
Isreal is a loose confederate of tribes (no
mechanism for succession or no procedure for
electing next judge)
Judge Ehud (judges 2-3)
Moabites
Eglon-gets stabbed in guts by Ehud it was
Ehuds secret message that sent him to do
this.
SAMPSON (numb 6)
Long haired judge of great strength-Nazarite
Followed system with
1. No haircuts
2. No alcohol
3. No touching corpses(human or animal)
Gets in trouble with 2 women
1. Woman of Timnah-Philistine(one of
Isreals oppressors)
-Orders people to get this woman for him
-God plans Sampson being jolted at the
alter to make him fight the Philistine
-Sampson kills lion and eats honey
*Out of the eater came something to
eat, out of the strong came something
sweet.
-disobeys his morals.
-Starts one man war with Philistines
2. Delilah(Philistine also)
-Wants secret to Sampson's strength
-He tells her
-She cuts his hair
-Sampson is taken to temple
-eyes plucked out and chained to 2
pillars
-He pushes pillars as a grant to use
strength one more time, building drops
on more Philistines and kills more
Philistines than Sampson had killed in
his whole life. Sampson died as well.
Judge-military, political and religious
leader.
Isreal asks for King
Samuel(last judge) warns against Kings
1. Taxation-heavy
2. Draft for army-men
3. Women palace servants
4. God should be your king-sees lack of
faith
God give in-relent
Samuel appoints King Saul
KING SAUL
Good Qualities
1. Tall
2. Handsome
3. Charismatic
4. Good General
Bad Qualities
* Disobedient
2 reasons why Saul lost kingship
1. Botches Amalekite genocide-his men take
loot under the "Ban"
-He didn't kill all the cattle and
sheep
-Samuel asked why haven't you killed
all sheep-Saul answers "we were going
to sacrifice to Yahweh."
-Left King Agag tortured cut off his
thumbs.
-He sacrificed before battle(reserved
for priests Levites)
God is angry and takes kingdom away from
Saul.
Obedience is Primary virtue in Judaism
Saul(1st King false start-dies in disgrace
commits suicide)
KING DAVID
Despite faults, ideal King basis for messiah
Defeats Philistines
Promised everlasting Dynasty (Samuel 7)
Didn't quite happen that way
Nathan-Prophet in this time-spoke for God
David's punishment for sleeping with another
man's wife(Bathsheeba)
1. 1st son dies(Bathsheba's son-7days old)
2. Absalom's rebellion(David's son)
-Humiliated-has sex with David's wives
3. Absalom is killed against David's will
KING SOLOMON
Thought to be author of books of
Ecclisactes
Proverbs
-both books of wisdom
Built the temple(destroyed in 70 AD)
Solomon was wicked and built temples for his
wives.
KING REHEBOAM
Threatenes the Northern tribes with vast
public works
People say "piss-off" and they elect their
own king Jereboam
This is the secular reason for the split of
Isreal to Northern and Southern tribes.
(as.2.3qu.1)
Religious reason for split of Isreal
*Promised by God to king Solomon
for building temples for false Gods for
wives.(as.2.3qu.2)
Judah(North Tribe)gets a lot of good Kings
Isreal(South Tribe)gets a lot of bad kings
reason for falling first
Solomon
Time line
Solomon
Reheboam (Northern)
Isreal
falls to Assyria in 722 BC
Jereboam (Southern)
Judah
fall to babylon in 586 BC
538 Judah restored
331 conquered by Greeks-Alexander the Great
Greek-Syrian rule-brief period of freedom
mid 2nd century
-Maccabean revolt
-conquered by Romans
Jews scattered after revolt against Romans
70AD
Isreal restored 1948
Northern tribe got swallowed up by Syrians
Some people form northern tribes settled in
Judah when it was restored
What weaknessess did Sampson and Solomon
share?
* Women
Change in Judaism under Babylon Captivity
1. Decreasing emphasis on
-sacrifice
-temple
-King/Nation of Isreal
2. Increase emphasis on
-scriptures
-personal devotion to God & Sabath
-Rabbi-teacher of scriptures
-synagoges-house of weekly worship
JOB
Why do good people suffer?
Why do bad things happen to good people
(Harold Kushner)
Yahwey makes a bet with Satan
satan said: Job only serves you for
rewards.
Yahwey said: He will serve me no matter
what.
Satan said: If you take away all his stuff
he won't serve you
God said: Your on!
Point in making
1. We should,not question God's ways.
2. Suffering is a test for faithfulness
3. We can't hope to understand God's ways
Holocaust WWII
Book of Job all over again