Unshaken Saints The Book of Judges: The Pride Cycle
Travel through Israel’s turbulent era of judges, from Deborah and Jael’s daring leadership to Gideon’s doubts, Jephthah’s tragic vow, and Samson’s volatile strength. The discussion also explores the bramble’s parable, religious corruption, and the grim final chapters, where social chaos puts the pride cycle’s consequences on full display.
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Good Intentions Can Spawn Idolatry
- Gideon's golden ephod becomes an inadvertent idol; good intentions plus misplaced artifacts can spawn priestcraft.
- Halverson warns how spiritual trappings can become snares that undo a deliverer's legacy.
The Parable Of The Bramble Exposes Vain Ambition
- Halverson recounts Abimelech's murder of his brothers and Jotham's parable of the bramble from Mount Gerizim.
- The parable contrasts productive leaders (olive, fig, vine) with a bramble that offers worthless 'shadow' and destructive rule.
Samson Personifies Israel's Fallen Potential
- Samson is a mirror of Israel's potential and failure: tremendous physical gifts with persistent spiritual weakness and poor self-discipline.
- Repeated 'going down' in his narrative symbolizes moral descent beneath his covenant privileges.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
The Pride Cycle in the Book of Mormon
02:11 • 4min
God, Why Do You Keep Bailing Them Out?
06:29 • 3min
The Pride Cycle in the Book of Judges
09:37 • 2min
The Manifold Mercies of God
11:58 • 2min
The Book of Judges - The Conquest of Canaan
14:27 • 2min
Judah's Battles With the Canaanites
16:19 • 2min
We Can't Be Satisfied by Leave the Least Vestiments of Sin Within Us
17:59 • 3min
When You're Weak, It's Not Our Fault
20:36 • 2min
Judges Chapter Two - Will You Keep Yours?
22:57 • 2min
How Do You Discipline Adults?
25:10 • 3min
How to Be Aware of What You've Done
27:44 • 3min
Are You Leaving the Enemies in Your Side?
30:51 • 4min
The Fourth Article of Faith
34:49 • 2min
What Happens Next?
37:17 • 4min
The Law of the Harvest - Chapter Two
41:47 • 3min
The Spirit of God Delivered Othnil
44:21 • 3min
The Gift of a Left Hander
47:03 • 4min
We're Not Eavengong to Fill in the Blanks Yet
50:55 • 3min
Lapidoth, a Woman of Great Illumination
53:31 • 2min
Will Baro Trust God?
55:32 • 3min
Bara, I Can't Go Unless You Go With Me
58:31 • 3min
What Does Cisera Do?
01:01:18 • 4min
What R You Going to Do?
01:05:33 • 3min
Judah's Song of Miriam, a Female Rejoicing
01:08:06 • 2min
The God of Israel Is the Ultimate Credit for This Victory
01:10:28 • 3min
Is She a Mother in Israel?
01:13:46 • 2min
The Palm Tree of Deborah
01:15:40 • 3min
Curse Ye, Morose, Because You Wouldn't Come to Help
01:18:57 • 2min
He Asked Water, She Gave Milk. She Brought Forth Butter in a Lordly Dish.
01:20:36 • 2min
The Mother of Cicera
01:22:46 • 4min
Deborah and Jael - A Warrior Woman Helping to Lead the Battle
01:26:39 • 2min
The Most Important Work You Can Do All at the Same Time
01:28:45 • 2min
What Is the Pride Cycle?
01:31:10 • 2min
The Lord Is With Thee, the Man of Valor
01:33:07 • 3min
Are You With Me?
01:35:53 • 2min
I Love the Weak, Because That's Humility
01:38:15 • 2min
Then the Angel of the Lord Departed Out of His Sight
01:40:40 • 2min
Throwing Down Idolatry in Israel
01:42:59 • 2min
Let's Let Bale Avenge Himself
01:45:19 • 2min
I'm Still Scared, but Will You Help My Unbelief?
01:47:34 • 3min
Ther, There's Reassurance for You
01:50:14 • 3min
I Wish There Were Better Depictions of This Scene
01:52:50 • 3min
You Put All This Fate on Your Arm
01:55:38 • 4min
Let the Fearful Drink Straight Out of the River
01:59:53 • 2min
What's Better Than Nothing, Gideon?
02:02:06 • 3min
Then I'm Going to Overhear the Enemy
02:04:54 • 2min
The Barley Cake Rolled Into Our Camp
02:07:13 • 2min
What's Going on in Their Head?
02:09:01 • 2min
Sword's Not Needed, Eh?
02:11:26 • 2min
The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon
02:13:38 • 3min
I Love Judges, Chapter Eight
02:16:18 • 3min
The Pride of the Ephramites Was on the Rise
02:18:51 • 4min
I Will Not Rule Over You, Nor Will My Son Rule Over Me My Sword
02:22:57 • 3min
The Golden Calf of Osprey in the Old Testament
02:25:30 • 3min
The Children of Israel Remembered Not the Lord, Their God
02:28:24 • 4min
The Olive Tree Says, Should I Leave My Fatness Wherewithal by Me?
02:32:49 • 2min
The Olive Tree Casts Shadow, Provides Shade
02:35:15 • 3min
Are You Serious? Are You Sincere?
02:37:48 • 3min
A Millstone, O O, Those Who Offended My Little Ones Better That Ha!
02:40:32 • 4min
The Children of Israel - Verse 6
02:44:24 • 3min
The Prodigal's Reconversion Story
02:47:10 • 3min
God's Mercy, Not Ourselves
02:49:51 • 3min
When You're Desperate, You'll Take Anyone
02:52:23 • 2min
The Promised Land, East Trans Jordan
02:54:30 • 3min
Getting Past the Patriarchy of Thatd Jus, Chapter 30
02:57:19 • 2min
The Promise of the Lord
02:59:35 • 3min
I Promised to Give to God What I First Saw When I Came Home
03:02:13 • 4min
Is There a Period of Mourning?
03:06:28 • 3min
Are You an Ephromite?
03:09:02 • 3min
Are You a True Disciple of Jesus Christ?
03:11:52 • 2min
Judges in a Nutshell
03:14:00 • 3min
How to Rake a Child of Promise?
03:17:00 • 4min
Are We Willing to Trust Our Marriage Partners?
03:20:52 • 2min
The Spirit of the Lord Is Beginning to Move You at Times
03:23:05 • 2min
I've Seen a Woman in Timnath of the Daughters of the Philistines. So Dad Get Her for Me
03:25:31 • 2min
Is There Never a Woman Among the Daughters of Israel, or Among All My People?
03:27:33 • 3min
What on Earth Is a Nazirite Ever Doing in a Vineyard?
03:30:19 • 2min
I Can Put Myself in Harm's Way, but Are You Strong Enough to Control Yourself?
03:32:32 • 2min
Samson's a Riddle?
03:34:56 • 3min
Is This a Philistine Woman That's My Heifer?
03:37:57 • 1min
Samson's Best Man at the Wedding
03:39:26 • 2min
The Ticking Time Bomb
03:41:44 • 2min
The Philistines Are Not to Learn Lessons, but to Avenge Their Death
03:44:06 • 2min
Samson, I'm Only Doing to Them What They Did to Me
03:46:15 • 3min
Samson's Prayer Takes a Turn
03:48:49 • 3min
Lehi, the Spring of Him Who Calls
03:51:20 • 3min
Amer and a Half to Get Back to Israelite Territory
03:54:04 • 2min
What Is Your Weakness?
03:56:16 • 4min
Samson, Love, Where's Yours?
04:00:18 • 3min
Did You Ever Recognize the Holy Ghost?
04:03:37 • 4min
A Loss of Vision
04:07:43 • 3min
Samson, Let Your Hair Grow Back
04:10:48 • 3min
The Judge With the Greatest Potential of All
04:13:26 • 2min
I've Got Priesthood Robes and Garments. I'm Good. You're Not.
04:15:37 • 4min
Priestcraft Is a Priest Craft
04:19:35 • 1min
Is There a Levite?
04:20:49 • 3min
The Myth of Religious Violence
04:23:25 • 2min
The Danites Versus Micah and the Conquest of Canaan
04:25:44 • 2min
What's the Difference Between the Conquest of Canaan and Judah?
04:28:13 • 3min
An in-depth study of the Book of Judges, which recounts round after round of the pride cycle as leadership in Israel passes from judge to judge. This lesson focuses on the pride cycle, an incomplete conquest, mothers in Israel, the song of Deborah, faith and doubt, the parable of the bramble, Jephthah and his daughter, Samson's strength and weakness, the problem of priestcraft, defending virtue, and more. Join Jared Halverson for your weekly Come Follow Me study of the Old Testament!
0:00 Introduction to the Book of Judges
3:01 The Pride Cycle
14:46 An Incomplete Conquest
23:29 Making the Rounds of Righteousness & Wickedness
43:25 The First Minor Judges
51:24 Deborah & Jael
1:08:06 The Song of Deborah & Mothers in Israel
1:31:45 Gideon's Doubt & Faith
1:54:49 The Sword of the Lord & of Gideon
2:17:28 Gideon's Aftermath
2:29:33 Abimelech's Reign & the Parable of the Bramble
2:44:07 Justice & Mercy, Goodness & Grief
2:52:11 Jephthah & His Daughter
3:14:07 Samson's Strength & Weakness
3:53:49 Samson & Delilah
4:14:46 Micah and the Problem of Priestcraft
4:32:13 The Levite's Concubine and the Price of Virtue
4:59:23 Conclusion