Renewed Apostasy and Repentance

To get our bearing in expatiating on the history of Israel -- on that part of it in which the person of Jephthah figured so prominently -- we must reach back a few years to the times that immediately followed the death of Gideon. So soon as Gideon died, the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Balaam, and made Baal-covenant their god. The amazing foolishness of the people! It had been demonstrated to them, through the achievements of Gideon's faith, that, national freedom,...