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Coming in at only 120 pages, with a conversational tone throughout, the book makes for a low barrier-to-entry for those who might otherwise have hesitations. Accessible. Casual. Readable. These characteristics make the book ready to hand out to the young people in your life who want to begin thinking rightly about their future in a culture that has all but forfeited any such reliability.
Picking up after the death of Moses, Joshua narrates the Israelites’ takeover of Canaan after their forty-year wandering in the wilderness. Through their military campaigns, the Israelites would serve as the instrument of God’s judgment upon the Canaanites for their sins, as well as the demonstration of God’s purposes to give the land to Abraham’s descendants (cf. Deut. 9:4-5).
This ethical stew of truth mixed with error is enough to make one sick. Ironically, to walk away from the book of Judges feeling sick means that the book’s purpose has been rightly understood! This harrowing portion of Scripture is precisely intended to whet the hearer’s redemptive appetite. Is there anyone who can lead righteously?