- Judges mainly gives us a picture of a period in the life of Israel when they were disobedient. God still intervenes in their situation, but we see a pattern of Israel being disobedient, God getting angry, Israel asking for forgiveness and God having mercy on them.
- Israel seems to be wavering a bit in this book because they have just lost their last great leader - Joshua. The book starts out this way "After the death of Joshua...". They have some leadership from the judges, but they are mediocre leaders who don't always trust in God.
- There are consequences to Israel's disobedience found here, the most notable is that they do not take the whole land of Canaan as God had originally intended for them to do.
- This book plays an important role in the recording of Israel's history because it shows that their success later on can only be contributed to God's faithfulness to them.
*Information for this post came from The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version, Oxford University Press: New York, 1989. AND Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture. Fortress Press: Philadelphia, 1979.
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