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After Joshua’s death, Israel compromises worship and abandons God’s commands, leading to enemy defeat and widespread loss. When the Israelites cry out, God raises deliverers to restore peace, including Gideon’s calling to save Israel from Midianite pressure, culminating in decisive obedience against idolatry.","16. The Deliverers  \nA Bible story from Judges 1-3; 6-8  \nEnglish Spiritual  \n16. The Deliverers  \nDistant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community. Illustrations are © Sweet Publishing.  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2015, unfolding Word | Open Bible Stories  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThis work is a derivative of \"Creative Commons Open Bible Stories\" attributed to [unfoldingWord.org](unfoldingWord.org) used under CC BY SA 4.0. All included images originate from “Bible Images from Sweet Publishing” attributed to Sweet Publishing used under CC BY SA 3.0.  \nAfter Joshua died, the Israelites disobeyed God and did not drive out the rest of the Canaanites or obey God’s laws. The Israelites began to worship the Canaanite gods instead of Yahweh, the true God. The Israelites had no king, so everyone did what they thought was right for them.  \nBecause the Israelites kept disobeying God, he punished them by allowing their enemies to defeat them. These enemies stole things from the Israelites, destroyed their property, and killed many of them. After many years of disobeying God and being oppressed by their enemies, the Israelites repented and asked God to rescue them.  \nThen God provided a deliverer who rescued them from their enemies and brought peace to the land. But then the people forgot about God and started worshiping idols again. So God allowed the Midianites, a nearby enemy people group, to defeat them.  \nThe Midianites took all of the Israelites’ crops for seven years. The Israelites were so scared; they hid in caves so the Midianites would not find them. Finally, they cried out to God to save them.  \nOne day, a man of Israel named Gideon was threshing grain secretly so the Midianites would not steal it. The angel of Yahweh came to Gideon and said,“God is with you, mighty warrior. Go and save Israel from the Midianites.”  \nGideon’s father had an altar dedicated to an idol. God told Gideon to tear down that altar. But Gideon was afraid of the people, so he waited until nighttime. Then he tore down the altar and smashed it to pieces. He built a new altar to God near where the altar to the idol used to be and made a sacrifice to God on it.","cbCaigZvfxXF7tY4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigZvfxXF7tY4","pdf",444332,4,1,24,"English","en",105,"# Background: Israel’s Disobedience and Oppression\n## God’s Deliverance and the Return to Idols\n# Gideon’s Call and Obedience","[{\"question\":\"What happened to Israel after Joshua died?\",\"answer\":\"Israel disobeyed God, did not drive out remaining Canaanites, and began worshiping Canaanite gods instead of Yahweh. 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