The Fallen Condition in Judges 11

The Old Testament is looking for the Deuteronomy 17, Psalm 1 fulfillment of a leader like Joshua who's going to meditate on the Torah day and night so that when he's tempted he will answer with Deuteronomy. The fallen condition in this passage? Well, it's the very things that we've been talking about. It's making up your own way in which you worship God, which is going to put you at odds with God. And then 18, 1, in those days there was no king in Israel. That's almost as though the author is saying, look at what happens when we don't have a king who is upholding the Torah. We can distract ourselves