🌾 Judges 15

Judges 15 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”” Judges 15 opens with these words: “But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But…” The line to keep is Judges 15:1: “But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t…” Carry the word “time” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Judges 15:1: “But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Judges 15? Then try this: Read “But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.