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  1. June 22 - The Locust

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    06/22/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    ארבה - [The Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East] would encamp against them and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey. For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in. JUDGES 6:4–5
    June 22 - The Locust

  2. June 21 - Hammer Time

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    06/21/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    מקבת - But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to [Sisera] and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died. JUDGES 4:21
    June 21 - Hammer Time

  3. June 20 - Prophetic Mother Bee

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    06/20/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    דבורה - Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. JUDGES 4:4–5
    June 20 - Prophetic Mother Bee

  4. June 19 - The Dangerous Hebrew Southpaw

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    06/19/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    אטר - Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes. JUDGES 3:15–16
    June 19 - The Dangerous Hebrew Southpaw

  5. June 18 - The Fat Calf King

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    06/18/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    עגל - And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord... Now Eglon was a very fat man. JUDGES 3:12, 17
    June 18 - The Fat Calf King

  6. June 17 - God as Merchant

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    06/17/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    מכר - Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. JUDGES 3:8
    June 17 - God as Merchant

  7. June 16 - Forget You!

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    06/16/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    שׁכח - And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth. JUDGES 3:7
    June 16 - Forget You!

  8. June 15 - Warrior Judges

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    06/15/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    שׁפטים - Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. JUDGES 2:16–17
    June 15 - Warrior Judges

  9. June 14 - Terrain of Tears

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    06/14/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    בכה - As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept. And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the Lord. JUDGES 2:4–5
    June 14 - Terrain of Tears

  10. June 13 - Welded to God

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    06/13/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    דבק - [Joshua said,] "Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.” JOSHUA 22:5
    June 13 - Welded to God

  11. June 12 - Canaanites’ Superior Weaponry

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    06/12/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    רכב - And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots. And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel. JOSHUA 10:1–2
    June 12 - Canaanites’ Superior Weaponry

  12. June 11 - Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

    book
    06/11/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    ירושׁלם - As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them, he feared greatly. JOSHUA 10:1–2
    June 11 - Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem