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1 Samuel 30:1-31 – David Saves Ziklag

1 Samuel 27:1-12 – David’s Return to Gath

1 Samuel 22:6-23 – Saul Kills the Priests

1 Samuel 22:3-4 – David the Moabite

1 Samuel 21:10-15 – David among the Philistines

1 Samuel 20:1-42 – Jonathan’s Long Goodbye

1 Samuel 19:1-24 Saul’s Family and Friends Help David

1 Samuel 18:17-29 – David Becomes Saul’s Son-in-Law

1 Samuel 18:7-8 – Hebrew Poetry

1 Samuel 17:40 – Five Stones

1 Samuel 15:1-33 – Saul Fails Again

1 Samuel 14:1-45 – Jonathan’s Victory and Saul’s Curse

1 Samuel 13:2-14 – Saul’s Sacrifice

1 Samuel 11:1-15 – Saul as Warrior King

1 Samuel 10:17-24 – God Selects the King

1 Samuel 10:1-16; 19:23 – Saul as Prophet

1 Samuel 9:9, 12-14 – Israelite Religion in Flux

1 Samuel 9:1-2; 10:23 – Meeting Saul

1 Samuel 8:1-5 – Samuel as Father

1 Samuel 2:22 – The Women at the Tent of Meeting

1 Samuel 1:11, 21-28 – Women’s Vows

1 Samuel 1:12-15 – The Invention of Silent Prayer

1 Samuel 1:1 – Is Samuel a Priest?

Ruth 4:5-6 – Boaz’s Legal Argument

Ruth 4:1-2 – Boaz at the Gate

Ruth 3:15-17 – Ruth’s Second Gift of Grain to Naomi

Ruth 3:8-11 – Boaz and Ruth on the Threshing Floor

Ruth 3:1-4 – Naomi’s Instructions to Ruth

Ruth 2:17-20 – Ruth’s Gifts to Naomi

Ruth 2:8-16 – The First Encounters of Boaz and Ruth

Ruth 2:5-7 – The Servant in Charge of the Reapers

Ruth 2:1 – The Introduction of Boaz

Ruth 1:19-21 – Naomi Cries in Lament

Ruth 1:8-11 – Naomi’s First Words

Ruth 1:1-5 – Naomi Leaves and Loses Her Husband and Children

1 Samuel 31:4 – Saul’s Suicide

1 Samuel 12:1-25 – Samuel’s Farewell Address

1 Samuel 8:4-20 – Israel Demands a King

1 Samuel 8:1-12:25 – Samuel and Saul

1 Samuel 7:15-17 – Samuel’s Career in a Nutshell

1 Samuel 7:5-14 – Prophet, Priest, Judget

1 Samuel 7:2-4 – Call to Repentance

1 Samuel 4:1b-7:2 – The Adventures of the Ark

1 Samuel 3:1-20 – God Calls Samuel

1 Samuel 2:18-26 – Samuel at Shiloh

1 Samuel 2:1-10 – Hannah’s Song

1 Samuel 1:4-20 – Samuel’s Birth

1 Samuel 1:1-7:17 – Samuel the “Segue”

Ruth 4:18-22 – David’s Genealogy

Ruth 4:13-17 – Ruth Bears a Son

Ruth 1:16-17 – Ruth’s Speech to Naomi

Judges 19:1-21:25 – Civil War

Judges 17:1-18:31 – The Origin of the Sanctuary at Dan

Judges 13:1-16:31 – Samson against the Philistines

Judges 12:8-15 – Three Minor Judges: Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon

Judges 10:6-12:7 – Jephthah against the Ammonites

Judges 10:1-5 – Two Minor Judges: Tola and Jair

Judges 9:1-57 – Abimelech

Judges 6:1-8:35 – Gideon

Judges 4:1-5:31 – Deborah and Barak

Judges 3:12-30 – Ehud

Judges 3:7-11 – Othniel

Judges 2:1-3:6 – The Settlement of Canaan as a Theological Problem

Judges 1:1-36 – The Settlement of Canaan as a Political Problem

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During this period, Israel was a loose confederation of independent tribes with no central government and found themselves in conflict with a group of people called the Philistines. The Book of Judges is characterized by disturbing stories of social chaos, critiqued with the common refrain, “In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.”

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Period of the Judges