04/27/2022 – Day 059 – Judges 17 -21 / “Why such a book in the Bible?”
These last five chapters of Judges is one sordid affair and treachery after another.
Here is an archaelogical note from Henry H. Halley’s BIble Handbook:
Chapters 19, 20, 21 . THe Benjamite Deed at Shame
“A narrative of savage justice, for a crime unspeakable horrible, as a result of which the tribe of Benjamin was almost wiped out.
ARCHAELOGICAL NOTE: Albright (1922-22), found, in the ruins of Gilbeah, a layer of ashes, from a fire that occurred about 1200 b.c. It must have been this very fire (20:40).
And also:
“Why Such a Book in the BIble?
Well, it is a simple history, God had founded a nation, for the purpose of paving the way for the coming of a Redeemer for the human race. God was determined to maintain the nation. And in spite of its Idolatry, and its Wickedness, God did maintain it. Except for such leaders as the Judges, and except for God’s Miraculous aid in times of crises, Israel would have been exterminated.”
Soli Deo Gloria!