7 Judges

Jotham's Trees

13 Isaiah 7:1-2
¹And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
²And it was told the house of David saying, Aram is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart and the heart of his people were moved, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.

7 Judges 9:7-15
⁷And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice and cried, and said to them, Listen to me, lords of Shechem, that god may listen to you.
⁸Once upon a time the trees went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Be king over us.
⁹But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fertility, by which gods and men are honored, to be abominated for reigning over the trees?
¹⁰And the trees said to the fig tree, Come, be king over us.
¹¹But the fig tree said to them, I am not going to leave my sweetness and my good fruit, to be abominated for reigning over the trees.
¹²Then the trees said to the vine, Come, be king over us.
¹³But the vine said to them, I am not going to leave my wine which cheers the hearts of gods and men, to be abominated for reigning over the trees.
¹⁴Then all the trees said to the bramble, Come, be king over us.
¹⁵And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

Ephraim as Enemy

13 Isaiah 7:3-9
³Then Yahvah said to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is in the highway of the house's field;
⁴and say to him, Listen and be quiet; do not fear, nor be frightened by these 2 weakening trouble-makers, by the fierce anger of Rezin, and by the son of Remaliah
⁵because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have taken evil counsel against you saying,
⁶Let us go up against Judah and destroy it, and let us make a breach in it and set a king in the middle of it, even the son of Tabeel;
⁷Master Yahvah says, It will not stand, nor will it come to pass.
⁸For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and after 65 years Ephraim will be broken, so that it will no longer be a people.
⁹And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you do not believe, surely you will not understand.

7 Judges 12:1-6
¹Then the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, went to Zaphon, and said to Jephthah, Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.
²And Jephthah said to them, Men, I and my people had strife with the sons of Ammon; and when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hands.
³And when I saw that there was no one to deliver me, I risked my life, and crossed over against the sons of Ammon, and Yahvah delivered them into my hands; now why have you come up against me this day, to fight with me?
⁴Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck the men of Ephraim, because they said, The Ephraimites dominate Ephraim and Manasseh.
⁵And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan which belonged to Ephraim; and when any of the fugitives of Ephraim tried to cross over the passage, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No;
⁶then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not pronounce it. Then they took him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan; and there fell at that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites.

Samson's Conception

13 Isaiah 7:10-14
¹⁰Moreover, Yahvah spoke again to Ahaz saying,
¹¹Ask for yourself a sign of Yahvah your god; ask something in the depth, or in the height above.
¹²But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I tempt Yahvah my god.
¹³And he said, Hear now, house of David; it is a small thing for you to weary men, but will you also weary my god?
¹⁴Therefore master himself will give you a sign; Look, a virgin will conceive and bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel.

7 Judges 13:2-3
²And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and never had sons.
³And the angel of Yahvah appeared to the woman and said to her, Look, you are barren, and have borne no sons; but now you will conceive, and bear a son.

Samson's Diet

13 Isaiah 7:15-16
¹⁵Butter and honey he will eat, that he may know how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
¹⁶For before the child will know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose 2 kings you are harassed will be forsaken.

7 Judges 13:4-5
⁴Now beware lest you drink wine or strong drink; and you will not eat anything unclean.
⁵For look, you have conceived and will bear a son; and no razor will come on his head; for the child will be a Nazirite to god from the womb; and he will begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

Assyria

13 Isaiah 7:17
¹⁷Yahvah will bring on you and on your people and on your father's house days that have not come from the day when the king of Assyria parted Ephraim from Judah.

7 Judges 14:5-6
⁵Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah; and look, a young lion roared at him.
⁶And the spirit of Yahvah came mightily on him, and he tore the lion as one tears a kid, and he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father nor his mother what he had done.

Honey in a Lion

13 Isaiah 7:18-19
¹⁸And it will come to pass on that day that Yahvah will whistle for the flies that are in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bees that are in the land of Assyria.
¹⁹And they will come and will rest all of them in the valley of Jathoth and in the holes of the rocks and in all the dens.

7 Judges 14:8-9
⁸And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and look, there was a swarm of bees in the carcass of the lion, and the honey ran out on his hands as he walked.
⁹And he went to his father and mother, and gave some honey to them, and they ate; but he did not tell them that the honey came from the carcass of the lion.

Samson's Haircut

13 Isaiah 7:20
²⁰On that day master will shave with a sharp razor the region that is beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and he will also shave off the beard.

7 Judges 16:19
¹⁹And she made him sleep on her knees; and she called for the barber, and had him shave off the 7 locks of his head; and she began to overpower him, and his strength had departed from him.

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13 Isaiah 7:21-22
²¹And it will come to pass in that day that a man will rear a young cow and 2 sheep;
²²and it will come to pass because of the abundance of milk that they will give, he will eat butter; for butter and honey will everyone eat who is left in the land.

Micah's Silver

13 Isaiah 7:23
²³And it will come to pass in that day that every place where there were 1,000 vines, worth 1,000 silver pieces, will become briers and thorns.

7 Judges 17:1-2
¹And there was a man from mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
²And he said to his mother, The 1,100 shekels of silver which were taken from you, which you swore about, and also spoke of in my ears, look, it was I who took the silver. And his mother said, Blessed of Yahvah is my son.

Armed Danites

13 Isaiah 7:24-8:0
²⁴With arrows and with bows will men come there, because all the land will be filled with briers and thorns.
²⁵And on all the hills that once were plowed with a plow, you will not go for fear of briers and thorns; but it will become pasture for cattle and for the treading of sheep.

7 Judges 18:11-13
¹¹And there went from there of the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, 600 men armed with weapons of war.
¹²And they went up and camped at Kiriath Jearim, in Judah; therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan to this day; look, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
¹³And they passed on from there to mount Ephraim, and went to the house of Micah.

By Ryan Eaton
Posted Monday, Simeon 7, 13000