But there’s a second reason why we neglect this book. Judges is a dark, bizarre book! If you made a movie out of Judges, it would be rated R for violence and sex. By the end of the book, you’ve got a guy whose concubine gets gang-raped, and then he responds by cutting her into twelve pieces and FedExing them to all the areas of Israel. What in the world is that doing in the Bible? Yes, the story line of Judges is dark and depressing. Basically, the message of the book is that God’s people self-destruct
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