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A theological introduction, exegesis, and reflection on the teaching of Judges for audiences today. Judges is a book for our time. It forces readers to come face to face with fact that faith speaks into the topics and situations we deal with or read about in our newsfeeds. Matters of warfare, authoritarianism, sexual exploitation, and tribalism—these are a few of the repercussions from not...

the length of time that they served the Mesopotamian king in the Othniel cycle).47 Moreover, dimensions of the Moabite oppression included the occupation of an Israelite city (v. 13)—the “city of palms” likely refers to Jericho and would serve as a strategic operational headquarters for the Moabite king—and the regular paying of tribute to Moab (vv. 15 and 17).48 Verse 15 includes the third and fourth elements of the cyclical pattern: (3) the people of God cry out to God to deliver them from their
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