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6-18. The Ammonite oppression. These vv. serve as an introduction to the story of Jephthah, and also, in part (Judges 10:6), to those of Samson and Samuel. They repeat the lessons of Judges 2, and, like that passage, remind us throughout of the tone of Deuteronomy. The sequence of thought is the same; faithlessness, oppression, repentance, deliverance.

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