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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...

the East … together’ (6:33), we blow the trumpet and find perhaps to our own astonishment that the troops do indeed rally to the call. We have taken the second step of obedience, to stand for what is plainly right against what is plainly wrong, and again our faith is confirmed. As we have found that our God really is God, so our people really do turn out to be the people of God. Even now the weaknesses of our own character remain within us. We may have found the
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