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A Commentary on Judges and Ruth: Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This definitive commentary sheds exegetical and theological light on the books of Judges and Ruth for contemporary preachers and students of Scripture. Listening closely to the text while interacting with the best scholarship, Robert B. Chisholm shows what the text meant for ancient Israel and what it means for us today. In addition to providing perceptive comments on the biblical text, he...

(1:1; cf. Josh. 24:29).1 Chapter one is primarily descriptive, reflecting for the most part an observer’s perspective of what transpired.2 The narrator does give a theological perspective at points (vv. 19a, 22), but this seems to be for rhetorical purposes, since he allows the people’s perspective to dominate (v. 19b; see the commentary below). The matter-of-fact description of Israel’s failure to carry out God’s commission prompts the reader to ask: Why did the people fail?3 The account of the
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