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Phil Porter 0:00

You're listening to Teach Me the Bible podcast. Our mission is to help the people of God understand the Word of God. Join us each Monday and Thursday for new episode releases. Listen to our full library of content at teachmethebible.com or by downloading the Teach Me the Bible app from any app store. You're listening to Teach Me the Bible Podcast. Well, hey everybody, welcome to Teach Me the Bible Podcast. My name is Phil Porter. I'm alongside Dr. David Klingler. And today we're going to start a brand new book. But remember, it's a part of the unified story. So if you've been following us along, you've come out of, well, if you ended Deuteronomy, you're going to realize you're going right into Joshua. And then there's a really unique phrase at the beginning of Joshua, which says, Now it came about after the death of Moses. Now we're going to be today, the actual book we're in is Judges. And you'll be very easily able to follow the story once you read the very first line, which says, Now it came to about after the death of Joshua. So Joshua just happens to be about Joshua. And a lot of things that happened during when he took over from uh Moses. And then now we're moving into the time of the judges, which we're going to do an overview today. And uh you're going to let us know kind of basically what how uh this book is going to progress, and he's saying things that we need to know to tie before we begin. So go ahead.

Dr. David Klingler 1:35

Uh whenever I'm teaching the the New Testament, I tell students, uh, and you've I'm sure you've heard this many times, I can sum up the New Testament in two words. Told you, right? Or you know, and then I'll say, or or as Jesus said to the Pharisees, have you not read? And as I thought about that, I thought, actually, um, you could sum up Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, the rest of the Old Testament in two words. Told you. Right? Uh I want to draw our attention back to the end of the book of Deuteronomy. This is uh shocking, right? We go back to Deuteronomy, but but we call, you know, in in uh in scholarly circles, they will call Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, those books, first and second Samuel, first and second Kings, is the Deuteronomic history. Um, it is the history written to be evaluated by the book of Deuteronomy. Maybe that's another way to say it. Some have argued, and uh they they can't believe that Moses was a prophet. Some can't believe that Moses was even existed as a person. Uh, many will argue that this was all written much later, not by Moses. The Torah was not written by Moses. Um, the Torah maybe was written after. They reorder uh the books. The reason they do that, at least one of the reasons, first they they reject prophetic utterance and the possibility that there is actually a God who can not only predict the future, but bring it to pass, okay, sovereign over it. But uh but in Deuteronomy chapter 31, starting

The Deuteronomy Lens Told You

Dr. David Klingler 3:15

in verse 14, then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, the time for you to die is near, called Joshua, and present yourself at the tent of meeting that I may commission him. And so Joshua and Moses went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting, and the Lord appeared in the tent in the power pillar of the cloud, and the pillar of the uh cloud stood uh stood at the doorway of the tent, and the Lord said to Moses, Behold, you're about to lie down with your fathers, and this people will arise and will play the harlot with strange gods of the land, and in the midst of which they are going, and they will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them. So my anger will be kindled against them in that day, uh, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will come upon them. Uh so that they will say, In that day, Is it not because our God, who is uh not among us, uh that these evils have come upon us? Uh and so uh we we were in Leviticus, we're talking about how do how does a um holy God dwell in the midst of a disobedient people? Um we were in Leviticus chapter 26, and if Israel rebels against the Lord, they'll be judged, and if they don't repent, then they'll be judged sevenfold for their sins. The book of Deuteronomy, uh, we go into the book of Numbers. The first generation is evil, they rebel against the Lord, they don't want to go take the land. This happens at a place called Kedish Barnea. Uh the second generation is raised up, they're no different. Um so Moses tells them look, this is what's going to happen to you. Deuteronomy 28, blessings and curses, Deuteronomy chapter 29. You do not yet have eyes to see or ears to hear or heart to know. You're still the same disobedient, rebellious people. Deuteronomy 30. When you're in the land where the Lord your God has banished you, because you're going to rebel, you're going to go after foreign gods. You're not to intermarry with the gods of the nations or with the people of the nations, Deuteronomy chapter 7, because they will cause you to follow their gods and you will play the harlot. You're going to do it. Don't do it, you're going to do it. You know, this is kind of the tone. And when you do it, you'll be judged. And when you're in the land, because you're kicked out of the land of the promised land, you're scattered among the nations. And when you repent in return, the Lord will restore you from captivity. And all of that's in Deuteronomy, you know, book of Deuteronomy 28 to 30, now 31. Joshua uh is called Moses and Joshua standing there, and this is what the Lord uh says. This is this people, they're going to rebel. You're you're going to go in, you're not going to take the land like I told you. You're going to intermarry. Um, you're going to uh because you intermarry with the peoples of the nations, they will cause you to follow their gods. Then the then my anger will be kindled against you, and the covenant curses will come upon you, and I will, you know, wipe you out, I will hide my face from you. Told you. So when we go to the book of Joshua, um, once we get past pastorally the first, well, I mean immediately. There, uh, even before we get into the land, right? And this is back in uh the book of Numbers, there Israel's camped at a place called Shatim, uh, where they play the harlot. Um, and then the book of Deuteronomy, which is uh when we when we talked about Deuteronomy, we talked about Leviticus, we talked about kind of the red letters, you know, this is where the Lord spoke to Israel, uh, or where Moses spoke, and the narrative time stops. It comes almost to a halt. Uh, where now we're listening to what the Lord said to Moses or what Moses said to the people in the book of Deuteronomy. Uh, and so they're on the plains there, they're at a place called Shatim. Um, they played the harlot. Moses preaches his last sermon, the book of Deuteronomy. Um, and um, and now it's time to go take the land. And so now we're at the end of the book of Deuteronomy, uh, and Joshua is summoned, uh, and they go straight from um from Shatim, where they had played the harlot, and uh Joshua sends out spies from Shatim, and they go straight to the harlot's house to lie down there, right? I mean, it's just not even a pause in the action. They've been playing the harlot, they're still a stiff-necked, rebellious people, the second generation is no different from the first. This doesn't take a prophet. Uh, you know, Moses obviously was a prophet, but but if you've been reading this story, of course this is what they're going to do. Yeah, they've never stopped doing this. They're going to go follow foreign gods, this is what they're going to do. And so, um, you know, it's almost like Moses says this, and Joshua could have said, Well, duh. You know, that there's nothing uh supernatural there.

Phil Porter 8:14

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 8:15

Um, have you not been reading this story? This is what these people are like. They've been going and complaining from the very moment of the Exodus all the way through the first generation. The second generation is no different. And so, um, so when they rebel, I will hide my face from this. This is back to 3118, uh, because uh of all the evil which they will do, for they will turn to other gods. Therefore, write this song. This song is Deuteronomy chapter 32. This is the song of human history, it's the song of Israel's history, and this is how it's all going to go out. You know, this is how it's gonna play out. And so uh when we get then to Joshua chapter 1, let me type it in here, Joshua 1, uh as you said, and it came about after the death of Moses, right? So Moses is about to die after the death of Moses. Um the the Lord spoke to Joshua, the son of Nun, said, and said, uh, arise, cross the Jordan, you and all this people, and go and take the land. And he's going to, you know, repeat this be strong and courageous, right? Uh, language back to Deuteronomy, right? It's the same language, back to Deuteronomy. Um and so uh so Moses is you know talked uh to uh talking with the Lord. Uh he says, Write this song. Moses uh so Moses wrote this song on the same day and taught it to the sons of Israel, Deuteronomy 32, right? So now we're in Deuteronomy 31, 23. And he commissioned Joshua, the son of Dune, and he said, Be strong and courageous. There it is. Nothing new. He's going to repeat it in Joshua 1. For you shall bring the sons of Israel into the land which I swore to them, and I will be with you. And it came about when Moses finished writing these words in the book of the law, when they were complete, that Moses commanded the Levites to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may remain there as a witness against you. For I know that your rebellious uh rebelliousness and your stubbornness, behold, uh, while I'm still alive today, you have been rebellious against the Lord. Uh, you know, I'm you've been rebellious from the get-go. How much more then after my death? So you've been you've been disobedient while I'm alive. When I die, you think it's going to be better? So assemble all the elders of all your tribes and all the officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and earth to witness against them. For I know that after my death you will act corruptly, uh, for the way which I have commanded uh turn and turning away from the way which I have commanded you, and evil will befall you in the latter days, in the last days. For you you will do that which is evil in the eyes of the Lord, provoking him to anger with the work of your hands. So Moses spoke in all the hearing of the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were complete. Give hear, O heavens, and let me speak, and let the earth hear. So he calls the heavens and the earth, uh, because the heavens and the earth are the witnesses. They're going to be they're there

Judges Priests Kings Prophets Evaluated

Dr. David Klingler 11:15

that day, and they're going to be there later. Uh and so off Joshua goes. Israel doesn't take the land as they were commanded. The ites are still among them. They intermarry with them and follow their gods. Told you. Mm-hmm. Book of uh Book of Judges. Now, if we go back a little bit, so I'm kind of jumping around a little here, but but hopefully we can follow this flow. Uh, back in Deuteronomy chapter 16, starting in verse 18, um, there were these officers, these leaders of Israel that were to be appointed to ensure that Israel did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord. There were several fathers were to teach their sons, they were to be elders, uh, they were to appoint judges and officers uh in all the towns which the Lord your God is giving you. They shall judge the people with righteous judgment. So there were judges, then there were priests, there were kings, and there were prophets. In that order, that's how it's presented in Deuteronomy chapter 16, verses 18 through the end of chapter 18. Uh, what the Deuteronomic history is going to do, what judges uh Samuel Kings is going to do is going to walk through. Well, how did the judges do? Terrible. As Moses said. Everything that Moses said that they were to do, they didn't do. They violated it all. They judged with wicked judgment, they were blinded, they, you know, they took they were partial, they took bribes, uh, they failed. Um and so um so we're gonna get in chapters three through the end of chapter um sixteen of the book of Judges, um, we're gonna get uh this uh evaluation of the judges. Um and um and it's gonna continue all the way through this section. Let me uh catch up here. Uh so 3 through 16, you're just gonna you're gonna evaluate judge after judge after judge, and every one is worse than the next one. Uh, and so the um at the end of this section uh we're going to say there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes. This is the problem that we are running into over and over and over in the judges section. Uh the last judge in the book of Judges is Samson, uh, and he does what's right in his own eyes. He's gonna go intermarry with some woman, um, foreign woman, go get her, for she is right in my eyes. Um don't do that, don't intermarry with them, right? This is a warning. Uh he does, and of course, problems follow. So at the end of chapter 16, the judges are failing. Uh so in chapter 17, it turns the the attention is turned uh to uh to the the the priests, the Levites. Uh and again they're in 176. In those days there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes. By the end of chapter 21, at the end of the book of Judges, uh we are it's horrible, right? And so when we go down to the last uh uh in those days there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes, right? So the judges they're doing what's right

The Cycle Of Sin And Rescue

Dr. David Klingler 14:40

in their own eyes. The priests are worse. All right, so this is where we're going with the judges and the priests. Um we're going to be introduced to this cycle that we're gonna call it cycles of sin. That's kind of often how you'll hear it. But basically, it is when Israel rejects the Lord, when they go after foreign gods, um, then the anger of the Lord burns against them. He judges them, he judges them according to the covenant. He's going to stop the rains from falling, um, he's going to send the foreign enemies against Israel to subjugate them. Uh, all of the covenant curses are going to come upon them, as was foretold, Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy chapter 28. Um, for them to then cry out to the Lord, to repent, to return to the Lord. And when they return to the Lord, the Lord's going to raise up a judge to deliver them. Uh, he raises up a judge, they repent, the Lord relents, he raises up a judge, he delivers them, um, they have peace and the land until the judge is gone, and then they go right back to the same old thing. So, so this is uh the cycles that we're going to be introduced to uh introduced to, and it's gonna go over and over and over. There's going to be uh major sections where we're dealing with one judge for several chapters, and then we're gonna get some judges that just take a verse or two, right? And we'll talk about how the the narrator communicate his message through just the simple verse or two uh evaluating a judge. But the judges are gonna fail, the priests are going to fail, uh, 17 through 21. And then when we get to the book of 1 Samuel, so we're gonna uh you know kind of project past here. Uh now there was a man, um, you know, there's this we're introduced to this guy who has two wives in 1 Samuel. Um and uh the one wife, Hannah, she has a son whose name is Samuel. And Samuel, she's gonna dedicate Samuel uh to the Lord. And Samuel's gonna grow up uh under the care of the of Eli, who is the the the chief priest. He's the you know, he's the the the the head honcho uh of the the Levites of the priests, and he's disobedient, rebellious, his sons are rebellious. The Lord is speaking not through the priests, not through the judges, but through Samuel. Samuel's a judge. Samuel, um, but Samuel's not a king. And Israel's going to reject Samuel, uh, and they're gonna want a king. Yep. Uh and so the book of Samuel translates to the transitions to the kings. So the judges fail, the priests fail. Well, how are the kings doing? Walking right through Deuteronomy 16 through 18. Judges, priests, kings, every one of them, just about all of them are evil, except for it's easier to say it that way, except for a couple, a few.

Phil Porter 17:38

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 17:38

Um, because of the wickedness of the kings, the kingdom is going to be split. Solomon's rebellion and Solomon's son rebellion is going to split the kingdom, uh, north and south. All of the kings in the north, Israel are evil. Uh, the kings in the south, almost all of them are evil. They all do what's evil in the eyes of the Lord. And now you're introduced to the man of God. The prophets start to show up. Uh, and they start to bring judgment on the kings and pronounce judgment upon Israel. Uh, here come the ites, here come uh the Babylonians, here come the Assyrians, here come the enemies, and they're going to expel you from the land if you don't repent. Of course, they don't. The Assyrians come, um, haul them off. The prophets are false prophets, they're they're turning south. Uh, Israel's persecuting the prophets, the kings are persecuting the prophets. There's a few prophets left that are solid prophets, you know. And they're and we know these guys by name.

Phil Porter 18:38

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 18:38

Um, but there's tons of false prophets going on. So the kings fail, you know, the judges fail, the priests fail, the kings fail, the prophets fail. Israel is expelled from the land. Um, and I can hear Moses saying, You should have listened. Told you. When you go into the land and you don't take the land, and you don't listen to me, and you uh rebel against me, uh, then uh I will judge you. And so when we uh when we get to Isaiah chapter 1, the vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos, concerning Judah and Jerusalem. This is the southern kingdom. The northern kingdom has been hauled off, they're already evil. Um, during the reigns of Uzziah and Jotham and Ahaz and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah. Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth. Remember those witnesses that were back in Deuteronomy 31 and 32. They were there then, and they're gonna be there when Moses' words come to pass. And Moses says, You should have listened, I told you, right? Uh and so as I thought about this, this isn't just New Testament, told you. This is the whole every single book and every writer, every prophet that comes after Moses, his words had to align with the words of Moses. He's gonna say, Yep, you should have listened to Moses. They're going to sing the same song, the same Deuteronomy 32 song of Moses, that tells the same story that Israel's going to go in. They don't have eyes to see, they don't have ears to hear, they don't have a heart to follow, they're they're going to walk after other gods, and so they're going to be kicked out of the land, where they're going to be left blind so that they cannot see what's good right in the eyes of the Lord, deaf so that they cannot hear the word of the Lord, lame so that they cannot return to the land, and there they will die, as Moses says in Deuteronomy 32, it is I who wound and I who heal, I who put to death, and I who give life. There is no one who can deliver you from my hand. And so here in Isaiah chapter 31, uh in Isaiah chapter 1, um, alas, sinful nation, weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who have acted corruptly, they have abandoned the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel. They've turned away from him. And because they have, they've been beaten from head to toe with no one to anoint with oil. And so what do they need to do? Well, they need to do Deuteronomy chapter 30. Repent, return to the Lord, he will restore them from captivity, he will have compassion on them. They won't do it. Uh they're kicked out of the land for 70 years, Jeremiah. Um at the end of the 70 years, Daniel prays to the Lord, Lord, it's time to return them. The Lord says, But you didn't repent. So it's 70 times seven. Then Messiah the prince will come and he will pay for the sins of Israel, and you'll reject him too. Uh Israel will reject the Lord, reject the rock of his salvation. Uh that's the gospel's, told you. Moses already said this. Um, then because of that rejection, the good news, the gospel go out to the nations. They will believe to make Israel jealous, to move them to anger. Paul's going to quote this in uh Romans chapter uh chapter 10, told you. Uh and at the end, when he when the Lord sees Israel's strength is gone, then he will return and he will restore them, uh, and the nations will rejoice with his people. This is all, this is the Bible story in one quick second. You know, segment. This is wonderful. And so what we're doing is we're slowing down in the book of Judges and so saying, okay, we know what's going to happen. Israel is going to go into the land and they're not going to take the land. Well, the first couple chapters, this is what the writer says. Every single tribe failed to take the land. And they intermarried with them. So what do you think is going to happen? Well, that's what happened, right? And so they reject the Lord, they rebel, he turns his face from them, he raises up uh the enemy. The enemy comes. Israel repents. The Lord responds in mercy. He raises up a judge to deliver them. Uh, and uh then um, you know, there's a little bit of peace, and then they go right back to it, judge after judge after judge. And that's what we're gonna uh encounter in chapters three through sixteen. We're gonna watch how the narrator shows the reader how evil these judges are, increasingly evil. Yes. Uh each one seems to be worse than the last uh until it seems that there's no hope. And at the end of the cycles, at the end of chapter 16, Israel's not even repenting. In fact, they're saying, you know, Samson,

When Leadership Fails The Need Grows

Dr. David Klingler 23:10

would you quit making it hard for us? Leave the Philistines alone and just let them be in our midst. You know, this was, you know, they're good with the the wicked, wicked being in their midst. So they're not doing well. Well, how are the priests doing? And what we're gonna find in 17 through 21 is you're gonna say, Well, you thought that the judges were bad, you know. Well, how does that how do the guys say it, you know, hold my beer, right? You think you think you guys are evil? Watch this, you know. Uh and uh and the priests are worse. I mean, they're absolutely worse. We're gonna we're gonna see Sodom and Gomorrah in the land. Uh, this isn't Sodom and Gomorrah. This has happened in Gibeah. This has happened in the towns of Israel. And at the end, they're going up in smoke, and what is going on? There's civil war, there's there's all kinds of stuff that is just pure evil. Um, how would we well, there was no king in Israel. Every man did what was right in his own eyes. We need a king. Any old king, a king like the nations? Israel's going to want a king like the nations. No, you don't want a king like the nations. Uh Satan runs the nations, and their kings subjugate their people. And Samuel's gonna say, well, if that's what you want, that's what you're gonna get. But what you need is a king like the Lord, a mashal, a a be like one who's going to come onto the scene and rule on his behalf. And and so as we go through judges, uh priests, kings, and prophets, and we're gonna watch each of those fail, it's going to raise the need, intensify the anticipation and expectation of this promised one who will actually come and fix this mess because it is a mess. So uh along the way, we're going to get these little pictures in the midst of Israel's rejection of what the true king will look like, right? Um now, uh, when we're in judges, and and we need to take these in order, right? Uh when we're in judges after the book of Judges, then later authors, Samuel Kings, are going to use the stories in the judges to show that these kings are doing the same thing the judges were doing. They're doing the same thing the priests were doing. Oh no, they're failing too. And then the prophets come on the scene, and there's false prophets. You're going, they they won't do it right either. Right. Uh, and so by the end of the Old Testament, um, the whole thing is laying in waste, it's laying in shambles, the uh the the place is a mess. Uh, there's a partial, you know, Israel's been kicked out of the land, partial uh rest, a few thousand come back, they rebuild the temple, they're lamenting, it's nothing like it was. Um, and the stage is set for the promised Messiah to walk onto the scene, be rejected, temple to be destroyed again, and the story to continue. Uh so um really if you've just read um Genesis to Deuteronomy, if you've read Torah, you have how this story is going to go. You know exactly what's going to happen. Uh, if you've read Genesis to Deuteronomy well, then you can sum up the rest of the Bible in two words. Told you. All right, and that's

Why Ruth Moves In The Hebrew Bible

Dr. David Klingler 26:35

exactly what we're going to encounter as we get in the book of Judges, as we as we turn our attention to that book.

Phil Porter 26:41

Yeah, so um as we're going through, you're gonna hear the statement that's said a lot that started actually in Genesis, which was they did what was right in their own eyes, not in the eyes of the Lord. Yep. Uh, but for some of our listeners, as they're looking through their Bible, they're going, Joshua Judges, why are we skipping Ruth?

Dr. David Klingler 27:00

Good question. Good question. In um in Hebrew Bible, the order is different than English Bible. So that's a great question. Uh we we could insert Ruth uh right there, and and uh, and and it's a good one. Um good place to insert Ruth because when you're introduced to David in Samuel, it's gonna go from uh the the judges goes from judges to priests to kings, and uh they're going to ask for a king, uh, and God's gonna give them what they asked for. Uh Saul, the word Saul, Saul is ask. They ask, and God gives them what they ask for, gave them Saul. Um, and then you turn to David and go, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second. Okay, who's this David guy? Oh, let me tell you a story. In the days that the judges judged, there was a famine in the land, and there's a certain man whose name was Elimelech, and he had a wife, and her name was Pleasant, Elimelech, my God is king, pleasant, Naomi. And they had two sons, sickly and wasting away. And there was a famine in the land. You're going, oh no, no, no, no, right. Uh, and what we're going to uh learn in the book of Ruth is that through this family's story, we're introduced to the lineage of David.

Phil Porter 28:14

Okay.

Dr. David Klingler 28:14

Hold on to that. You're going to need that story here in a minute. The genealogy at the end of the book of Ruth, chapter four, is going to pick up with Perez. Perez is a descendant uh of Judah and Tamar. Judah and Tamar had uh twins. Uh Xeroch was the oldest, Perez was the youngest. Xeroch had the red thread tied to his hand when he came out first, then he went back in. And oh, what a breach! And Perez comes out. This is in Deuteronomy in Genesis chapter 38. Uh the Ruth story is going to connect those dots. Uh and so we will, you know, when we get to to the book of Ruth, when we're in the book of Ruth, we'll make that clear. Gotcha. Um, Hebrew Bible um goes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua judges Samuel Kings. Um, it doesn't go to Chronicles, right? Uh, then it goes to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. So uh categories of Hebrew Bible, maybe you've heard this. Hebrew Bible is called Tanakh, uh, T-A-N-A-K. T is Torah, that's the first five books. Uh, and then the the two A's, T A N A K, they just connect the letters T N K. That's really the uh it's Torah, uh, law, or by five books, Pinta, five to books, five books. Um, or Navaim, that's prophets. When we think of prophets, we think of major and minor. Yes. Right? Um Hebrew Bible thinks of former and latter, right? Uh former, Joshua judges, Samuel Kings. These are where the prophets show up. Uh, and the latter prophets are what we would call the writing prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the 12, what we call minor prophets. They weren't minor because they were less important, they were minor because they had less to say. Um Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, pretty long-winded. Yeah, they have a lot to say. Um, notice that Daniel is not in the latter prophets of Hebrew Bible, it's in the writings. It's uh it's story, it's in the writings. Ruth is in the writings, right? And so uh writings is the K part of Tanakh, the Kettavim. So it's Torah, law, Neveim, a Navi is a prophet, Nevaim is plural prophets, so former and latter prophets, and the last section is Kettavim writings. Um in uh Luke chapter 24, we get these divisions when Jesus is walking with his disciples uh on uh the road to Emmaus, and there he explains to them all that was foretold about Christ and his suffering and the law and the prophets and the psalms had to be fulfilled. That's the three divisions. The first book in the Kettavim in the writings section is the Psalms, and so it's the Torah and the prophets and the Psalms or the writings. Uh, these are the three sections of Hebrew Bible. Uh, and so the story goes straight across. Uh, think of um of Ruth as kind of a parenthetical story that connects the dots. You're going to have to know that. So, so uh, you know, it's probably a good spot. Uh you're going to need the book of Ruth uh to understand you know what's happening in Samuel, uh 1st and 2nd Samuel Kings. Um, but um, but it's not in that order in Hebrew Bible.

Phil Porter 32:04

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 32:04

Interestingly, uh in Hebrew Bible, Ruth follows Proverbs. Um, an excellent wife who can find that's you know the the Deuteronomy uh or uh Proverbs 31, the excellent wife. Um uh well the book of Ruth. Here she is. Yeah. Look at her. Yeah, yeah. Here's here's one. Um and so so yeah, that's a great question. Um uh but but we want to follow Hebrew Bible order here, and we want to go Torah, Judges, Samuel, Kings. Um, Chronicles is in the writings as well. Chronicles is actually the last book in the writings, and so in New Testament passages where we're talking about uh from the first uh martyr to the last martyr, we're talking about Hebrew Bible, from you know, from Abel, from the first martyr to the last martyr in the book of Chronicles. Uh and uh and so again, that this

Next Week And How To Partner

Dr. David Klingler 33:00

this order is is everywhere in the New Testament. Um and so again, you can sum up the New Testament with you know, told you. So, yeah, it's a great question. Great question.

Phil Porter 33:10

Awesome. Well, we will uh start with chapter one here, and uh, and one thing to remember that um I think you have said many times before is that as we go through this book, storytellers don't tell you, they show you. Yes, so you're gonna be shown as we go through this book. So we look forward to starting it next week. We'll see you then. For more resources, visit teachmethebible.com or download our app from any app store. You can partner with Teach Me the Bible in helping the people of God understand the Word of God by subscribing and sharing with others. Thank you for listening to Teach Me the Bible Podcast.