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The Book of Judges is one of the historical books of the Old Testament and is the chief source of our information concerning the historical period which it covers. The book clearly reveals the sinfulness and the rebellion which characterized the majority of the children of Israel during the Judges period. This lawlessness is summarized in the key verse of the book, “Every man did that which was...

Joshua,Joshua 24:23, but after his death, the brakes were removed and the new generation, which had not seen God’s mighty works in Israel’s behalf, forsook the God of their fathers and followed, bowed down to, and served the two chief gods of the Canaanites, Baal and Ashtaroth (Baal’s wife) and the other gods of the pagan peoples around them. Joshua had warned Israel against this very thing, Joshua 24:14–18. C. THE RECURRING CYCLE IN ISRAEL (2:11–19) During the Judges period, we find Israel going through
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