“After the death of Joshua…”
Judges 1:1

Structure of Judges:
Judges 1-2: Prologues 1 and 2
Judges 3-16: Body
Judges 17-18and19-21: Epilogues 1 and 2

God is not the bolsterer of our human wisdom or a supporter of our self-sufficiency. He is the despoiler of our human self-reliance. His Name does not head the list of contributors to the establishment of our empires; rather, His Signature seals the death-warrant against our arrogance.

Judges 1:19, 22, “The Lord was with them…”

Failure in the Christian life is rarely a blow-out; it is almost always a slow leak.

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire."
Deuteronomy 7:1-2, 5

And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
Deuteronomy 7:16

The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.
Deuteronomy 7:25–26

In the Hebrew, “Do and be” are the same thing, so, they should be in our lives as well.