impatience over the misery of Israel (10:16), and Yahweh’s unexpressed desire for an opportunity to move against the Philistines (14:4). Second, Old Testament narrators are reliable and trustworthy. In some forms of storytelling, the author’s perspective is at odds with the narrator’s perspective (e.g., satire), but this is not so in Old Testament narrative. While it is true that for a variety of reasons “they may choose to withhold information, they never deceive.”16 The reliability of the narrator