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Judges opens with “The Conquest Stalls” and carries its history toward “No King in Israel.” Tribe after tribe fails to drive out the people already in the land, and an angel tells them what is left behind will be thorns in their sides. A man sets up his own shrine and hires a Levite as a private priest; a whole tribe steals both on its way north.
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Judges 1–3
Tribe after tribe fails to drive out the people already in the land, and an angel tells them what is left behind will be thorns in their sides. A pattern begins that the book repeats to exhaustion: the people forget, an oppressor arrives, they cry out, a deliverer rises, and the peace lasts exactly as long as he does.
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Judges 4–5
Deborah judges Israel under a palm tree and tells Barak the honour of the day will go to a woman. Sisera runs from the battle on foot, asks for water, is given milk, and falls asleep in a tent where Jael is waiting with a hammer.
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Judges 6–8
Gideon threshes wheat in a winepress to hide it and is greeted as a mighty man of valour. He asks for a sign twice with a fleece, then watches his army cut from thirty two thousand to three hundred, who win with trumpets, torches and empty jars.
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Judges 9–12
Abimelech kills seventy brothers on one stone to make himself king, and the youngest survivor shouts a fable about trees from a hilltop. It ends at Thebez, where a woman drops a piece of a millstone on his head and he asks his armour bearer to finish it.
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Judges 13–16
Jephthah makes a promise about whatever comes out of his door and his daughter comes out of it. Then Samson kills a lion, poses a riddle at his own wedding, loses his strength to a haircut, and pulls a temple down on himself and everyone in it.
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Judges 17–21
A man sets up his own shrine and hires a Levite as a private priest; a whole tribe steals both on its way north. A Levite’s concubine is abused to death in Gibeah, the nation almost wipes Benjamin off the map, and then invents a way to find the survivors wives. The book closes with the line it has been building toward: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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