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And I'm Tyler. And I'm Avin Shannon. I'm a guest today.

This is Book of Mormon Central's. Come follow me insights. Today, the Book of Judges.

And we have our friend Avram with this. This is actually a really fascinating and important book that sometimes gets overlooked and

sometimes people get a little confused about what's going on.

There's some really important things that help us to understand God's plan and the role

of kings and leadership in helping point people to God.

Quite frankly, when you just read the book of judges start to finish,

you can walk away with a pretty sour taste in your mouth.

There are some really violent, terrible things that are going on here.

And Avram, you pointed out that one of the purposes for this book

is to show the people of Israel the need for something.

Yes. So it's part of the whole idea behind judges explicitly is to illustrate why Israel needs a king.

That's it. It's explicitly in the text itself. In those days, there was no king in Israel. Every man did that,

which was right in his own eyes. Can you see, can you see some corollary to our day, that idea of

when you lack leadership, then people end up just doing whatever is right in their own eyes.

And they do it feeling justified in what they're doing, and it creates a pretty chaotic society.

Chaotic is a really good word to describe what we see in a book of judges.

I mean, it's just, I mean, the whole thing is structured in this way to actually illustrate the point that the author and editor of

judges wants is that without this kind of sort of proper divine authority, things are just

going to get crazy.

Yeah.

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