This is the only narrative that has all the elements in the cyclical pattern. Following this cycle, every story is going to lack more and more of the aspects of the cycle mentioned in the introduction, Judges 2:11–18. So, although for the first time there is a particular enemy and a particular judge, there are no plot expansions or developments: no dialogue, no reported speech of any kind, no dramatization of events, no scenic presentation, no descriptions of any character flaws, and so on. Such narrative expansions will characterize the next five cycles. Consequently, their absence here is significant. Nothing distracts the reader from the clear message of God’s intervention through the deliverer.¹ As also Block says: This brief account functions as a paradigmatic model against which the rest must be interpreted.²