David Alvin

Judges David Alvin

Othniel. Ehud. Shamgar. Deborah. Barak. Gideon. Tola. Jair. Jephthah. Ibzan. Elon. Abdon. Samson. It is unlikely judges or ourselves today will be called to lead military expeditions or spearhead a drive back to national righteousness. Beyond their functions in our day interpreting the law, these major figures in the Book of Judges, the seventh book of the Torah or Old Testament, are people in situations much like ours. We have smacked down six hundred like Shamgar. We have doubted God's promises like Gideon. We have come from the wrong side of the tracks like Jephthah. We have had the foes arrayed against us to match Samson. But we are on God's side. Alas, Judges doesn't end after chapter sixteen ...