Old Testament · History · Book 7 of 66
Judges
A cycle that repeats: Israel drifts, is oppressed, cries out, is rescued by a judge, and drifts again. The book gets progressively darker.
- 21chapters
- 6days in the plan
- 53–58days of the year
Reading Judges in a year
Gripping and disturbing in roughly equal measure. Not a comfortable read, and not meant to be.
In a one-year plan, Judges occupies days 53 to 58 — 6 days out of 365, or 1.8% of the Bible's 1189 chapters. Short enough not to become a project, long enough to develop.
The exact days
- Day 53 — Joshua 22–24, Judges 1
- Day 54 — Judges 2–5
- Day 55 — Judges 6–9
- Day 56 — Judges 10–13
- Day 57 — Judges 14–17
- Day 58 — Judges 18–21
Questions
- How many chapters are in Judges?
- Judges has 21 chapters, which is 1.8% of the Bible's 1189 chapters.
- How long does it take to read Judges?
- In a one-year plan of three to four chapters a day, Judges takes 6 days — days 53 to 58.
- What is the book of Judges about?
- A cycle that repeats: Israel drifts, is oppressed, cries out, is rescued by a judge, and drifts again. The book gets progressively darker.
- Is Judges in the Old or New Testament?
- Judges is in the Old Testament, classified as History. It is book 7 of 66 in canonical order.