Discuss Judges 18

Here are scriptures, hopefully these are helpful :

Genesis 49:16-18, Judges 18:1-31, 1 Kings 12:30, Amos 8:14, 2 Chronicles 16:4, 1 Kings 15:20, Jeremiah 8:14-17, * Deuteronomy 29:1-29,

Replaced by Manasseh, * Genesis 48:1-6, Numbers 26:28, Psalms 77:15,

Hi Carol.

Ephraim and Dan may have been omitted in Revelation 7 is because they was the first to go into Idolatry and they Lost their Witness.

Deuteronomy 29:18. Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or (TRIBE,) whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

Judges 18:30. And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

However just speculation.

God bless.

Hi again Kayode , this is my second reply to your comment . I think what I am trying to say is , that Samson believed that it was his obedience to his Nazarite vow in not cutting his hair , he thought that that is why God gave him the strength . He thought that God was rewarding his obedience , in other words he thought he was earning his strength as a reward for being obedient . He trusted in himself and his own works . Once he had been humbled by the treatment of the Philistines toward him he finally realised that God didn't stop loving him because he told Delilah about his hair . He learned to trust in God's love for him and mercy towards him . He had faith again and realised that all he had to do was ask God for help and God would help him , hair or no hair . There is a lesson for us all in there I think . We all sin . God didn't leave Samson , Samson thought that God had left him because he felt that he had betrayed God . He placed to much importance on his hair and his own works and not enough importance on the love of God who is ready to forgive us all when we fail to do what we think we should do . I think I've waffled on about this a bit too much now . I hope you can understand me , I'm not a teacher , as you can probably guess .

Hi Kayode , Samson is an interesting man . When I was a babe in Christ I thought that Samson was a great big muscley man . It's only when we read carefully and pay attention to the words that we realise that he was not . If he was a big strong man the philistines wouldn't have been asking about where his strength came from . He looked like everyone else . When we read the New testament we often hear Jesus say something like ' according to your faith you are healed ' or ' because you believed you are healed ' . Samson believed that his strength came from the fact that he had obeyed his Nazarite vow and had never had his hair cut . Judges ch13 v5 , Samson believed that his obedience to God in this matter is why God gave him great strength . After he tells Delilah his secret about his strength coming from his hair he feels enormous guilt , he feels he has betrayed God . He completely looses his confidence and isn't able to be strong any more . At the end of his life , Samson realises that God gave him the strength , it wasn't in his hair , it was in his faith toward God . When he humbles himself and asks God to make him strong again God does , judges ch16 . He commited suicide . The writer of these events is very non judgemental , he gives us the facts without condemning Samson . It isn't our place to judge him either . I hope I have explained this clearly , it's just my opinion , others may disagree , may God bless you .

Kayode olatise Samsons biggest error was giving away a secret that was between Him and God in regards to His hair because that is where his strength came from. When he divulged info to delilah he sealed his fate.

An interesting note Judges 13:5 For thou shalt conceive and bear a son and no razor shall come upon His head [they are very specific instructions from the angel to follow] for the child shall be a nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

Who else is the area of nazareth of Galilee mentioned only to deliver all people who choose to believe for all time. Its incredible how much Information from the angel was given to manoah and his wife on what to do with the child from verse 5 to verse 20. Another remarkable record of God delivering Israel His Way. In His Service

I read the story of Samson. His sins seem not very grievous but God departed from him. Is my conclusion right? The only sin I can notice is the visit to the harlot and eating the honey from the carcass of a lion.

why is there a different name used in various translations, in regard to Manasseh and Moses. the priests referenced here, who ministered to the tribe of Dan, are these priests from the tribe of Manasseh, thus not making them Levites, or are they the grandsons of Moses?

Both the tribe of Dan & the tribe pertaining to Ephraim (son of Joseph) are missing from the list in Revelation 7:4-8. There is no certainty why these names are missing, with the tribes of Joseph & Manasseh being reflected instead. The general reason given is that according to Judges 18:30-31, Dan went into idol worship, as also Ephraim, & they had failed to repent & return to the worship of the true God. Even though they would have continued to survive (i.e. not being wiped out), their idolatrous practises caused God to isolate & remove them entirely.

Hmm. Interesting thoughts. The angels obviously are way smarter than we are. It is believed that the fallen angels taught mankind the technology it took to build the pyramids and other giant edifices.

Was it the LORD'S will that Laish be taken by Dan? The Danites certainly did not go in His Name. On fact, they depended on Micah's idols.

Dan was not lost in the 144000 lot. 12000 of each tribe equals 144000.

Sometimes we make things our god without realizing it. Not necessarily molten images but anything that takes us away from worshipping God as we should. Let us be mindful to put God first in all we do."Thou shall have no other gods before me" says hte Lord, Ex. 3.

The events of Israel and of the world as a whole were known of God when He prepared for us atonement and a way of escape through Jesus; Yeshua, the Messiah, the saviour, the one true King. God's love is so great the he prepares so well in advance that we cannot begin to fathom the greatness of that love. Romans 8:29

My first reaction is to throw up my hands and say, "How could you insult our precious one true living God in this way? " So quickly they forget God 's Commandments.

I think the ephod is a laptop computer carried in a linen pocket and the teraphim is the internet. The stones of the ephod are the lighted keyboard. It is hinged, it is girdled when it sits in a mans lap and it is a breastplate because it sits in front of the mans chest when open. The threads of color and gold is the technology that creates the hard drive. GOD KNOWS THE ENDING FROM THE BEGINNING. Angels have superior technology than ancient man. Do you think that angels have technology inferior to what you are using right now? Artists have incorrectly portrayed angels as men with white bird like wings and an ephod as a type of apron that priests wear. These are in error. These false images mislead people even today. Angels do not have bird wings and an ephod is a laptop computer. The HISTORY OF ISRAEL HAS HAS BEEN CREATED TO SHOW MAN WHAT HAPPENS IN THE END OF DAYS. God wants mankind to realize the Bible is truth and more truth is revealed towards the end of days because men in the past could not understand the technology of today.

Anything humans put before God is considered an idol not just hand made golden images such as Micah's. Some people idolize, their jobs, cars, homes, and even other people. God commands us to not put anything before Him or worship anything other than Him.

The tribe of Dan started going astray this early.its for this reason that they lost in the the 144 000 lot.