* no.
  17:6  18:1  19:1 
 * right.
  18:7  De 12:8  Ps 12:4  Pr 3:5  14:12  Ec 11:9  Mic 2:1,2 



             CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF JUDGES.

 The book of Judges forms an important link in the history of the
 Israelites.  It furnishes us with a lively description of a
 fluctuating and unsettled nation; a striking picture of the
 disorders and dangers which prevailed in a republic without
 magistracy; when "the high-ways were unoccupied, and the
 travellers walked through by-ways," (ch. 5:6;) when few prophets
 were appointed to control the people, and "every one did that
 which was right in his own eyes."  (ch. 17:6.)  It exhibits the
 contest of true religion with superstition; and displays the
 beneficial effects that flow from the former, and the miseries
 and evil consequences of impiety.  It is a most remarkable
 history of the long-suffering of God towards the Israelites, in
 which we see the most signal instances of his justice and mercy
 alternately displayed:  the people sinned, and were punished;
 they repented, and found mercy.  These things are written for
 our warning:  none should presume, for God is just; none need
 despair, for God is merciful.  Independently of the internal
 evidence of the authenticity of this sacred book, the
 transactions it records are not only cited or alluded to by
 other inspired writers, but are further confirmed by the
 traditions current among heathen nations.