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The book of Judges bustles with colorful characters. We meet Ehud, a left-handed political assassin who cleverly dispatches a corpulent king. We meet Deborah, a bold prophet and matriarch of Israel who musters the tribes to war. And we meet Samson, a Rambo-like warrior who dallies with women and annihilates Philistines in a temple of doom. To Christian readers, Judges is interesting, sometimes...

opens his mouth and puts his foot in it (which means a good many of us), to be careful how we talk. ‘Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD,’ prayed the psalmist,18 ‘keep watch over the door of my lips!’ It is more likely to be a rather different lesson, which will be intensified for us as Judges proceeds: namely, that how the Lord uses his servants in public is not necessarily related to what he knows them to be in private. This is not meant to be a cosy excuse (‘He obviously uses my gifts, so I don’t
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