The Sunday School Lesson Israel's Sinfulness and God's Faithfulness by David McGee
Oct 05, 2025
Israel's Sinfulness and God's Faithfulness (40:14)
Referenced Scriptures: Judges 2:10-23; Judges 3:7-30; Hebrews 3:12
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Judges 2:10-23
10) Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn‘t know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
11) The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals;
12) and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
13) They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
14) The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
15) Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were sore distressed.
16) Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.
17) Yet they didn‘t listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; [but] they didn‘t do so.
18) When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them.
19) But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn‘t cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
20) The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;
21) I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
22) that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
23) So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
Judges 3:7-30
7) The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
8) Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
9) When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb‘s younger brother.
10) The Spirit of Yahweh came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed against Cushan- rishathaim.
11) The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
12) The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
13) He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm-trees.
14) The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15) But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
16) Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.
17) He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
18) When he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people who bore the tribute.
19) But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to you, king. He said, Keep silence. All who stood by him went out from him.
20) Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. He arose out of his seat.
21) Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:
22) and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn‘t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.
23) Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
24) Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.
25) They waited until they were ashamed; and, behold, he didn‘t open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
26) Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.
27) It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he before them.
28) He said to them, Follow after me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. They went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn‘t allow a man to pass over.
29) They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.
30) So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.
Hebrews 3:12
12) Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there will be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
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