[Read Judges 1]
In chapter 1 we see this book picking up where Joshua left off. The Isrealites incomplete conquest and failure to completely take the land and Apostasy.

• Now Joshua was dead and gone, what would the feelings amongst the Isrealites be?
• By not fully taking the land and by sharing it with the Canaanites, Isreal bring bad stuff on themselves in several ways. What and Why?
• Verse 7 speaks of 70 kings with thumbs and big toes cut off and eating scraps from under a table. What’s that all about?
• There are 5 reasons why Isreal failed to completely take the land. What do you think they are?
• The Isrealites were unable to take the 5 Philistine cities of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath.
  They are close to Judah’s promised land, close to the coastline with a main route from Mesopotamia (north) to Egypt (south). Why was this area important?