{"id":27830,"date":"2023-09-03T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/judges-20_18-32-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T22:05:54","slug":"judges-20_33-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/judges-20_33-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Care of Home Base"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judges 20:33-48 <\/strong>Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Judges 20:33-48.\u00a0 For context, we\u2019ll start at verse 29.<\/p>\n

Judges 20:29-48 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah.
\n30\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before.
\n31\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads–the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
\n32\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,” the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”
\n33\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west of Gibeah.
\n34\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then ten thousand of Israel’s finest men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was.
\n35\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
\n36\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten. Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.
\n37\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The men who had been in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah, spread out and put the whole city to the sword.
\n38\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The men of Israel had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
\n39\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0and then the men of Israel would turn in the battle. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the men of Israel (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”
\n40\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the smoke of the whole city going up into the sky.
\n41\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the men of Israel turned on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come upon them.
\n42\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the desert, but they could not escape the battle. And the men of Israel who came out of the towns cut them down there.
\n43\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
\n44\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.
\n45\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0As they turned and fled toward the desert to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.
\n46\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters.
\n47\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But six hundred men turned and fled into the desert to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
\n48\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 33-48:\u00a0 The Benjamites made this mistake:\u00a0 they were so intent on defeating the Israelites that they directed all or most of their soldiers out of their home base of Gibeah and into the open field, leaving their own city of Gibeah vulnerable.\u00a0 Little did the Benjamites know that the Israelites had other troops waiting for the city of Gibeah to be left alone so that the Israelites could ambush it from different directions.\u00a0 This would lead to the Benjamites losing both their city as well as the war they were fighting outside of it.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0You may have great dreams and ambitions outside of your own home base, but don\u2019t forget to take care of and protect your home base.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>For if you lose your home base, you can end up with nothing and lose everything.<\/p>\n

Satan loves to ambush those who leave their home base vulnerable.\u00a0 So take good care of your home base no matter what.<\/p>\n

Father, no matter what mission, dream or passion I pursue, I pray that I would take good care of my home base, knowing that my success always begins there.\u00a0 Thank You.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n


\n Copyright \u00a9 2021 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Judges 20:33-48.\u00a0 For context, we\u2019ll start at verse 29.<\/p>\n

Judges 20:29-48 (NIV)
\n29\u00a0\u00a0Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah.
\n30\u00a0\u00a0They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before.
\n31\u00a0\u00a0The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads–the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.<\/p>\n

On verses 33-48:\u00a0 The Benjamites made this mistake:\u00a0 they were so intent on defeating the Israelites that they directed all or most of their soldiers out of their home base of Gibeah and into the open field, leaving their own city of Gibeah vulnerable.\u00a0 Little did the Benjamites know that the Israelites had other troops waiting for the city of Gibeah to be left alone so that the Israelites could ambush it from different directions.\u00a0 This would lead to the Benjamites losing both their city as well as the war they were fighting outside of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27838,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830\/revisions\/27838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}