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Right in Their Own Eyes: The Gospel according to the Book of Judges is unavailable, but you can change that!

Right in Their Own Eyes explains Judges from three Old Testament and three New Testament perspectives. First, it shows how the Spirit enabled wayward people to fulfill the mission God gave them, promotes David as king of Israel, and illustrates God’s covenant with his people. Schwab then shows how God sovereignly works among his wayward people to forge a community of faith under the New...

succeeds, and then Benjamin fails. But compare both of those texts to this one from Joshua: But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out; so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day. The allotment of the descendants of Joseph went … into the hill country to Bethel. (Josh. 15:63–16:1) What is wrong with this picture? In Judges, Judah succeeds and Benjamin fails, but in Joshua, Judah is the tribe who failed. In fact, in Judges
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