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Study through the Book of Judges

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Given the Bible's subject matter—God and salvation, living well and loving deeply—we quite naturally expect to find in its pages leaders for us who are good, noble, honorable men and women showing us the way. So it is always something of a shock to open up the book of Judges and find ourselves in mayhem and chaos. But that's the wonderful thing about the Bible. It doesn't paint a glossy picture of life in a fallen world.

 

 Judges, perhaps more than any other book of the Bible, shows us the failure of humanity to live out God's call on our lives. The book's final words sum up the picture: "In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes." (Judges 21:25)