“We find in Judges a seeming contradiction. On the one hand, God demands obedience because he is holy. On the other hand, he makes promises of commitment and loyalty to his people. Will his holiness and his conditional commands override his promises, or will his promises override his commands? Put it this way – are his promises conditional, or unconditional? Judges is crucial, in that it shows that neither answer to that question is right. Judges leaves us with a tension – that both are true, but neither are fully true – and it will not resolve the tension.” – Tim Keller