Author: lowen

Getting back to the story of David, we review Joab’s partial victory over Syria and Ammon. Why partial? Joab let’s them go back to their city. This is the right thing to do, but at the same time now an ongoing war with Ammon is in the works. This event will directly precipitate the reign-changing…

We next meet the Ammonites after their defeat at the hands of Jepthah at the very beginning of the reign of Saul. This week, we explore the amount of time between these two events and the background of the battle between the Ammonite king Nahash and Saul, over the city of Jabesh-Gilead.

At this point, we run a bit of a rabbit by looking at what the trouble was with Ephraim. Judges 8 and Judges 12 record the story of a bitter tribe of Ephraimites; bitterness that spanned multiple generations, at that. Bitterness that they weren’t in the center of the battle getting all the glory was…

There are few passages in Scripture that are more conflicting than Judges 11:29-40. The story of how Jepthah vowed a rash vow, went on to defeat the Ammonites, and then came home to be bound by that rash vow, resulting in him doing a thing God called an abomination tears at the heartstrings like few…

Now that the stage has been set, the Bible brings Jepthah on the scene. Jepthah’s background is of ill repute, but God uses broken vessels in mighty ways, and Jepthah is no exception. He sends a message to the King of Ammon to see what the fighting is all about, gets the reply, then proceeds…

There are many hidden gems and treasures in scripture, if we’ll just look for them. This week on the podcast, we explore Judges 10, which tells of the vexation of Israel by Ammon. This is the introduction; Judges 11 tells the story of the Judge Jephtah, who ed Israel to victory over Ammon.