PROBLEMS OF SETTLEMENT AND WAR
Judges 1:1
IT was a new hour in the history of Israel. To a lengthened period of
serfdom there had succeeded a time of sojourn in tents, when the camp
of the tribes, half-military, half-pastoral, clustering about the
Tabernacle of Witness, moved with it from point to... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WAY OF THE SWORD
Judges 1:12
THE name Kiriath-sepher, that is Book-Town, has been supposed to point
to the existence of a semi-popular literature among the pre-Judaean
inhabitants of Canaan. We cannot build with any certainty upon a name;
but there are other facts of some significance. Already... [ Continue Reading ]