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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...

For among all these voices the voice of God is still speaking. Jephthah would be foolish to imagine that he can hear the true message only on occasions such as those when our writer tells us ‘the LORD said’, or ‘the angel of the LORD … said’, or ‘the LORD sent a prophet … and he said’.19 Our own generation also, in which ‘words of prophecy’ are given undue importance by many Christians, needs to remember this. The fact is that God had opened his mouth long before, in the days of Adam and Noah and
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