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This lament by God over the unfaithfulness of Israel goes on for several chapters. God uses several different metaphors to express his...

Ruth went to work, and “as it happened” she joined the gleaners in the field of a rich relative of Naomi’s husband. The man’s name was...

In our text, God is in the middle of a sustained charge against Israel, that is, the refugees from the now defunct Kingdom of Israel as...

“ As it happened,” that’s what the text says (Ruth 2:3). Ruth went out to glean barley in order to provide some food and income for her...

Chapter 1 is an introduction to the prophet Jeremiah and the beginning of his long conversation with God about the times that Jeremiah...

If the Book of Judges was written to show how ruthless life in Israel could be without a king, then the sinful Israelites certainly...

There is abundant evidence in the Book of Jeremiah that he had a lifetime secretary, a scribe who wrote down the words that Jeremiah...

The Book of Judges ends with a terrible story about a village within the tribal allotment of the Benjamin where the men demanded that a...