Day 76 | Judges 20–21 — Everyone Did What Was Right in Their Own Eyes — Israel’s Civil War and the End of Judges | Bible in a Year

Grief doesn't always lead to repentance — sometimes it just leads to more of the same. Israel goes to war over an atrocity, loses twenty-two thousand men before God even shows up to help, and afterward does everything except the one thing that would have actually healed them. They weep. They strategize. They make more vows. They never once say, simply, You are my King.Here we consider vengeance, rash vows, national grief, and the difference between remorse and repentance.