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The spiritual condition of God’s chosen people during the period of the Judges is summarized by the final verse of the book. “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”—Judges 21:25. Israel’s repetitive cycles of sin, slavery and submission to the gentile peoples in and around the promised land, repentant submission to God, and finally salvation by...

appear in the Ugaritic Texts13 that were discovered, which shows them to be typical Semitic and Canaanite names. Their ethnic origin was: Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. Ephrath was the ancient name for Bethlehem (Gen. 35:19 and 48:7; Ruth 4:11; 1 Sam. 17:12; Mic. 5:2), and was also used as the name of the region where Bethlehem was located. In Hebrew, the form here is not the normal form, Ephrat, but Ephratim, which is the plural form and the adjective formation from Ephrath. It is also found elsewhere
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