Here are four interesting and insightful quotes about the seventh book of the Bible, Judges.
G. Campbell Morgan
“The book of Judges reveals the awful peril of forgetting God and the inevitable chaos that follows when there is no recognized authority under Him.”
Judges 21:25 (KJV):
“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
Barry G. Webb
“Judges is not a book of heroes so much as a book of failure—failure of leadership, failure of faith, and failure of the people to live as God’s covenant community.”
Judges 2:10–11 (KJV):
“And there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim.”
Daniel I. Block
“The judges were not saviors in the full sense but instruments of divine mercy, raised up in a time of moral and spiritual collapse.”
Judges 2:16 (KJV):
“Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.”
Tremper Longman III
“The repeated refrain, ‘Everyone did what was right in his own eyes,’ is not a celebration of freedom but a diagnosis of Israel’s sickness.”
Judges 17:6 (KJV):
“In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
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