In this video listen to Judges 3 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In Judges 3 we meet the first three of the twelve judges, Othniel, Ehud and Shamgar. The Israelites intermarried, which they were told not to do. They mixed worldliness into their lives and became weak. Earlier in Genesis we saw that God had sent the Israelites to Egypt to help solidify them as a separate cultural group.

The Egyptians saw the Israelites as distasteful and generally wouldn’t mix with them, so it preserved them as a group. But now they are beginning to intermarry and it is causing problems. This does NOT inform the question of cultural intermarriage in today’s world.

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