Bible study · Judges 19:1-30
Judges 19: Consider it
Read Judges 19:1-30 before you meet.
In a few lines
In Bethlehem the Levite was pressed to stay; in Gibeah, a town of Israel, no one took him in but an old man from Ephraim (19:15-16). What followed at the door is told in many of Genesis 19's words (Genesis 19:4-8), now in a city of Benjamin. And the chapter ends with a charge, not a verdict: "Consider it, take counsel, and speak" (19:30).
The verse to carry
“It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.””
Judges 19:30
To talk about
1. In Gibeah the Levite "sat down in the street of the city", and no one took them in except an old man who wasn't from there himself (19:15-16). Who around you might be sitting in the street, and what would taking them in look like?
2. The chapter ends, "Consider it, take counsel, and speak" (19:30). When something wrong happens among people who belong to God, what makes it hard to stop, talk it through together, and say something? What helps?
3. The chapter opens "when there was no king in Israel" (19:1), and the book ends, "Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes" (21:25). Where are you most tempted to do what seems right in your own eyes?