Old Testament · Historical Books
Judges
Judges shows what happens after the land is entered and the covenant is forgotten. A cycle repeats: the people turn away, an enemy oppresses them, they cry out, God raises a deliverer, and peace lasts only until the deliverer dies.
- Authorship
- The author is unnamed.
- Historical setting
- The tribal period between Joshua and Israel's first king.
- Key themes
- Cycles of turning away · God's mercy · Flawed deliverers · No king in Israel
- Where it sits in the story
- The book that makes the longing for a faithful king felt before Samuel introduces one.
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