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CHAPTER 12 : Return of the two and a half Tribes to their Homes -
Building of an Altar by them - Embassy to them -
Joshua's Farewell Addresses - Death of Joshua - Review
of his Life and Work. (JOSHUA 22-24) 73
CHAPTER 13 : Summary of the Book of Judges - Judah's and
Simeon's Campaign-Spiritual and national Decay of
Israel - "From Gilgal to Bochin." (JUDGES 1-3:4) 79
CHAPTER 14 : Othniel - Ehud - Shamgar (JUDGES 3:5-31) 86
CHAPTER 15 : The Oppression of Jabin and Sisera - Deborah and
Barak - The Battle of Taanach - The Song of Deborah
(JUDGES 4, 5) 90
CHAPTER 16 : Midianitish Oppression - The Calling of Gideon -
Judgment begins at the House of God - The Holy War -
The Night-battle of Moreh (JUDGES 6-7:22) 97
CHAPTER 17 : Farther Course of Gideon - The Ephod at Ophrah -
Death of Gideon - Conspiracy of Abimelech - The
parable of Jotham - Rule and End of Abimelech
(JUDGES 7:23-9:57) 106
CHAPTER 18 : Successors of Abimelech - Chronology of the Period -
Israel's renewed Apostasy, and their Humiliation before
Jehovah -Oppression by the Ammonites - Jephthah - His
History and Vow -The Successors of Jephthah
(JUDGES 10-12) 113
CHAPTER 19 : Meaning of the History of Samson - His Annunciation
and early History - The Spirit of Jehovah "impels him" -
His Deeds of Faith (JUDGES 13-15) 121
CHAPTER 20 : The Sin and Fall of Samson - Jehovah departs from
him - Samson's Repentance, Faith, and Death (JUDGES
16) 128
CHAPTER 21 : Social and Religious Life in Bethlehem in the Days of
Judges -The Story of Ruth - King David's Ancestors
(THE BOOK OF RUTH) 132
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