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Judges: Such a Great Salvation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Church has a problem with the book of Judges. It is so earthy, puzzling, primitive and violent—so much so that the Church can barely stomach it. It falls under the category of “embarrassing scripture.” Such an attitude is, of course, wrong, so Ralph Davis here makes Judges digestible by analyzing the major literary and theological themes discovered in each section, providing a theocentric...

kingdom of God continues though the servants of God die. That is the witness of Judges 1. Joshua died, but ‘Yahweh said, ‘I have given the land into Judah’s hand’ ’ (v. 2). Joshua died, but ‘Yahweh gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand’ (v. 4). Joshua died, yet ‘Yahweh was with Judah so that he possessed the hill country’ (v. 19). The point should not be lost on contemporary Christians. Your help is in the name of the Lord, not in the name of your favorite Christian hero. Even when
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