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  • A. 1:1-2:5 Introduction: (a) the Israelites asked of the LORD, saying, who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites to fight against them? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up (1:1-2); (b) the story of how Othniel got his wife (1:11-15); (c) the Benjaminites fail to drive out the Jebusites from Jebus (1:21); (d) Bochim: God's covenant: Israel's unlawful covenants with the Canaanites: Israel weeping before the angel of the LORD (2:1-5).
  • B. 2:6-3:4 Introduction: degeneration of the generations after the death of Joshua (2:6-19); God leaves certain nations 'to prove Israel … whether they would obey the commandments … which he commanded … by Moses (2:20-3:4).
  • C. 3:7-11 Othniel. Set in contrast to the Israelites who took Gentiles' daughters to be their wives (3:6); wife had been incentive for capturing Kiriath-Sepher, and pressed him to ask of her father a field (1:11-15).
  • D. 3:12-31 Ehud (plus Shamgar). Announces 'a message from the LORD to the king (3:19-20); with the Ephraimites takes the fords of Jordan and kills the enemy.
  • E. 4:1-5:31 Deborah, Barak, Jael. A woman pierces the enemy commander's skull with a tent peg and so ends the war.
  • F. 6:1-8:32 Gideon: (a) his stand against idolatry (6:1-32); (b) his fight against the enemy (6:33-7:25); (b') his fight against his own nationals (8:1-21); (a') his lapse into idolatry (8:22-32).
  • E'. 8:33-10:5 Abimelech (plus Tola, Jair). A woman smashes the enemy commander's skull with a mill-stone and so ends the war.
  • D'. 10:6-12:15 Jephthah (plus Ibzan, Elon, Abdon). Sends messengers to the king (11:12-14); takes the fords of Jordan and kills his fellow nationals.
  • C'. 13:1-16:31 Samson. Takes Gentile wives; his wives press him to tell them his secrets and so prove his undoing.
  • B'. 17:1-18:31 Epilogue 1: Mother dedicates silver to the LORD for her son to make an idol. The son makes one of his own sons a priest in his idolatrous shrine: Moses' grandson and his sons become priests at Dan's shrine.
  • A'. 19:1-21:25 Epilogue 2: (a) the Israelites … asked … of God … Who shall go up for us first to battle against the Benjaminites? And the LORD said, Judah (20:18); (b) the story of how the remainder of Benjamin got their wives (21:1-25); (c) a Levite carefully avoiding the Jebusites in Jebus, suffers terrible outrage in Gibeah of Benjamin (19:1-30); (d) Bethel: the ark of the covenant of God: Israel weep and fast before the LORD (20:26-29).
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