These accounts do not mention the name of the Lord. Nor is there any notation of the spirituality of the nation in their days. But at least there is no bloodshed, only the trappings of a peaceful and prosperous life: asses and cities, children and weddings and even grandchildren. And there is continuity and stability. The judge works and lives and dies and is buried. And another judge arises and works and lives and dies and is buried.
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1 Après Abimélec, Thola, fils de Pua, fils de Dodo, homme d'Issacar, se leva pour délivrer Israël; il habitait à Schamir, dans la montagne d'Ephraïm.