Day 72 | Judges 9–10 — You Deserve Each Other — Abimelech’s Bloody Throne and God’s Refusal to Enable | Bible in a Year

Seventy brothers, one rock, and a throne nobody gave him. Abimelech seizes power through blood, and the city that helped him get there will die right alongside him. A parable about a bramble nobody wanted as king becomes prophecy. When Israel finally cries out to God one more time, He says no — not because He's abandoned them, but because enabling the cycle any longer would only prolong it.Here we consider ambition, betrayal, enabling, consequence, and the God who disciplines instead of rescuing.