Judges Topical Outline

Introduction

Chapter 1

God delivers 10,000 Canaanites and Perizzites 1:1-4

The Israelites cut off Adonibezek's thumbs and big toes 1:5-7

The Jerusalem massacre 1:8

Five massacres, a wedding, and some God-proof iron chariots 1:9-36

Chapter 2

An angel rebukes the Israelites 2:1-7

Joshua dies 2:8-10

The Israelites do evil in the sight of the Lord 2:11-13

God gets angry and sells the Israelites to their enemies 2:14-23

Chapter 3

The nations God didn't drive out 3:1-6

Othniel delivers Israel from Chushanrishathaim 3:7-11

Ehud delivers a message from God 3:12-25

God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites 3:26-30

Shamgar kills 600 with an ox goad 3:27

Chapter 4

The Lord discomfited Sisera (and killed all his men) 4:1-16

Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man's skull 4:17-24

Chapter 5

Blessed is Jael among women
(A song by Deborah and Barak) 5:1-31

Chapter 6

The Israelites do evil and God delivers them to the Midianites 6:1-10

The call of Gideon 6:11-16

Gideon tests God 6:17-40

Chapter 7

As a dog lappeth: God selects Gideon's army 7:1-7

A cake of barley bread: A dream predicts Gideon's victory 7:8-15

The LORD set every man's sword against his fellow 7:16-24

The heads of two princes are brought to Gideon 7:25

Chapter 8

Gideon tortures the men of Succoth 8:1-16

He destroys the tower of Penuel and kills all the men in the city 8:17-19

He oders his son to kill Zebah and Zalmunna 8:20-21

Gideon's golden ephod 8:22-27

Gideon dies (leaving many wives and 70 sons) 8:28-35

Chapter 9

Abimelech murders 70 of his brothers upon a single stone 9:1-5

Talking trees 9:6-15

The curse of Jotham 9:16-21

Amalech destroys a city and burns 1000 people in a tower 9:22-49

A woman drops a millstone on Abimelech's head 9:50-57

Chapter 10

Tola and Jair 10:1-5

The Israelites do evil again in the sight of the Lord, etc. 10:6-18

Chapter 11

Jephthah is thrown out of his father's house 11:1-3

Jephthah becomes the captain 11:4-11

The king of Ammon and Jephthah exchange messages 11:12-28

The Ammonite massacre 11:29-33

Jephthah sacrifices his daughter to God as a burnt offering 11:34-40

Chapter 12

A dispute about participating in a war causes a war 12:1-4

42,000 killed for mispronouncing "Shibboleth" 12:5-6

Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon 12:7-15

Chapter 13

The Israelites do evil and God delivers them to the Philistines 13:1

Samson's miraculous birth 13:2-25

Chapter 14

Samson sees a Philistine woman who pleases him well 14:1-4

Samson rips apart a lion 14:5-6

The Philistine woman pleased Samson well 14:7

Samson collects "honey" from a lion's carcass 14:8-9

Samson's riddle 14:10-18

Samson kills thirty men for their clothes14:19

Samson's Philistine wife is given to his best man 14:20

Chapter 15

Samson ties the tails of 300 foxes and sets them on fire 15:1-5

The Philistines burn Samson's wife and father-in-law 15:6

Samson smites the Philistines with a great slaughter 15:7-8

Samson kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass 15:9-20

Chapter 16

Samson has sex with a harlot 16:1

Samson carries the doors and gate posts of the city to the top of the hill 16:2-3

Samson and Delilah 16:4-20

Samson kills 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack 16:21-31

Chapter 17

Micah and his mother hire a priest for their house of gods 17:1-13

Chapter 18

The Massacre of the Peaceful, Unsuspecting People 18:1-31

Chapter 19

The Levite and his concubine 19:1-30

Chapter 20

A Holy Civil War
(It had something to do with rotting, concubine body-part messages) 20:1-48

Chapter 21

The end of Judges: Two genocides and 200 stolen virgins 21:1-25