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Story LineAfter the death of Joshua the Israelites were attacked by various forces in and around Canaan (Judges 1). The narrator explains that this happened because the Israelites continued to serve Baal rather than Yahweh (2-3). A series of leaders, called judges, arose to deliver the Israelites. The more interesting ones are Ehud (3), Deborah (4-5), Gideon (6-8), Jephthah (10-12), and Samson (13-16). The remaining chapters tell of Israelite inter-tribal conflicts. Micah had a shrine and hired a Levite to be its priest, but was attacked by Danites who were migrating to the north of Canaan and took the Levite with them (17-18). The concubine of another Levite was raped and murdered in Gibeah of the tribe of Benjamin, and this provoked a devastating attack on Benjamin by the other tribes, almost wiping the tribe of Benjamin out (19-21).
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