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The Book of Judges opens just like the Book of Joshua did: with the death of a beloved long-time leader and the nation facing the prospect of moving forward bereft of inspired and inspirational guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike the previous instance, however, this time there is no leader-in-waiting. Moses had groomed Joshua to succeed him (although his appointment also required divine approval), but Joshua had not done the same. Joshua was first succeeded by anonymous elders \u201cwho were acquainted with all the deeds God had performed for Israel\u201d (24:31) \u2014arguably, a reference to members of the generation that had reached the age of twenty after the failed mission of the scouts (see Numbers 14:29 ff.)\u2014and there is an allusion to the continuation of the \u201cold guard\u201d in the reference to Eliezer, son of Aaron, the High Priest (Joshua 24:33), but no single individual came forward to assume command.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, God appointed a collective leadership: the tribe of Judah (v.2), which was reluctant to operate independently and, instead, called on its brother tribe of Simeon to share the leadership role (v.3). Curiously, while the chapter goes on to detail Judah\u2019s military successes as well as those of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, it makes but passing reference to Simeon\u2019s conquest of Safed, after which that tribe essentially disappears from the balance of biblical history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the collective nature of the leadership post-Joshua, it is somewhat incongruous that the Book of Judges, as its very name implies, features lone leaders. 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