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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...
that when Israel asks God for leadership, the answer is consistently “Judah.” A positive presentation of Judah frames Judges. Judah executes Yahweh’s justice, is successful, is blessed. Othniel (the first and ideal judge) is from Judah: nothing negative is recorded of this tribe. But Benjamin fails from the beginning. And the same story in chapter 20 that lauds Judah presents the Benjaminite city of Gibeah as another Sodom, fit only for judgment. Here is a salient point: Gibeah was Saul’s hometown
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