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1 | a summary judges 17-21 | Judges | masterreggie | 79513 | ||
i need a complete summary of judges chapter 17-21 soon as possible | ||||||
2 | a summary judges 17-21 | Judges | Emmaus | 79514 | ||
I think the key to all the actions done by the people and even their Judges in the book of Judges is the constant refrain before and after each segment of the book: "And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord...In those days there was no king and everyone did what he thought best." So that even when the Lord raised up a Judge as an instrument of salvation, the Judge was seriously flawed. The Lord gave them kind of leaders and Judges they deserved. Let me quote a passage from one of my favorite books(unfortunately out of print) in which the authors touch briefly on certain aspects of the Book of Judges. "But why employ irony, why invite disgust when describing the heroes of Judges? The author's attitude toward them is surely not the attitude he has takes towards God's repeated deliverance of his people. This repeated deliverance would indeed be the cause of joy and exhultation. But this is only half the story--and the response of the reader is tied to the other half. The author's attitude toward these heroes is rather the attitude he thinks his reaaders should have toward the repeated need for God to save (and to punish) his people, to do so again and again, long after he has already brought them to the promised land. Embarrasment, revulsion, disgust. God might well have been saving the sinful Israelites, but he was sending them exactly the kind of judges they deserved, judges who embodied the Hebrew's own weakness and perversity...Samson fits the pattern of a champion of a people unworthy of their God--a champion strong but stupid, willful, lustful, unclean..." Before Abraham Was, The Unity of Genesis 1-11 pgs. 133,134 Isaac M Kikawada and Arthur Quinn Abingdon Press 1985 Ignatius Press 198 Emmaus |
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