concern for every part of life? Such affirmations could have easily worn thin in the minds of those whose lot was simply to be on the receiving end of seemingly endless evil. The lure of other gods and the temptation to split Yahweh’s concerns from everyday life; the social chaos, personal misery, and harsh experience of divine judgment; these are the things which primarily characterize ‘the days when the judges ruled’. The scale of the book of Judges is large—national unrest and international strife