Judges2: INTRODUCTION TO JUDGESIntroduction. Read Judges 1 and 2. I am not going to deal exhaustively with Judges - as I have done with some other books of the Bible like Luke or 1 Corinthians. The Judges is a collection of stories from which broad lessons can be derived. I am going to concentrate on the characters that feature in these stories. I have consulted the following commentaries for this series of expositions: (1) Judges and Ruth by Arthur E. Cundall in the Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries series. (2) The New American Commentary on Judges and Ruth by Daniel I. Block. (3) Judges, Such a Great salvation, by Dale Ralph Davis in Focus on the Bible series. (4) Be available - a commentary on Judges by Warren W. Wiersbe (5) The Message of Judges by Michael Wilcock in the Bible Speaks Today series. These are all helpful and I especially enjoyed reading Dale Ralph Davis' commentary - written as it is in a racy style. I have included in this series a character study of the last and greatest of the Judges, Samuel, for which I have just used the text of the N.I.V.. It just seems wrong to leave him out!
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