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Judges and Ruth: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Arthur Cundall expounds and comments on Judges in a clear, straightforward style, giving a good overall perspective to the book’s varied contents. The book of Judges presents Israel’s human frailty, the nation’s need for both spiritual and political deliverance, and God’s use of flawed human leaders to guide and preserve his chosen people through a dark period of their history. Leon Morris...

adultery, they went a whoring after other gods (AV, RV), or they played the harlot after other gods (RSV). Israel, called to be the bride of the Lord, had forsaken him to follow other lovers, i.e. the fertility gods of Canaan. This graphic imagery of the violated covenant of marriage provides the background for the entire book of the eighth-century prophet to Israel, Hosea, and is also applied by Jeremiah to the equally desperate situation in Judah a century and a half later (Jer. 3:1ff.). 19. A
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