. The training of the Chosen people. is whollvin the hand of God, who is plenteous in mercy; andthe deliverance is wrought by the means most entirelybeyond human forecast, the coming into the world of ahuman personality endowed for the specific task. Chapter 18. Overthrow and Redemption 61 CHAPTER XVIII. OVERTHROW AND REDEMPTION. 1 Sam. 1 : 1—7 : 2. Various forces led to the period of weakness anddegradation that coincides with the judgeship of central cause of this degeneration, however, wasnot physical but moral. It was Israels failure in loy-alty to Jehovah. From this root sprang th
. The training of the Chosen people. is whollvin the hand of God, who is plenteous in mercy; andthe deliverance is wrought by the means most entirelybeyond human forecast, the coming into the world of ahuman personality endowed for the specific task. Chapter 18. Overthrow and Redemption 61 CHAPTER XVIII. OVERTHROW AND REDEMPTION. 1 Sam. 1 : 1—7 : 2. Various forces led to the period of weakness anddegradation that coincides with the judgeship of central cause of this degeneration, however, wasnot physical but moral. It was Israels failure in loy-alty to Jehovah. From this root sprang the tolerationof the Canaanites, whose presence in the land was aperpetual source of corruption; from this root sprangthe iniquities of Benjamin that led to such fierce ven-geance by the rest of Israel that the tribe was wellnigh exterminated (Jud. chs. 19-21) ; from this rootsprang the jealousies between Gad and Ephraim thatso weakened the latter that effective resistance to thePhilistines on the west of the Jordan ceased, and the. From a photograph. Hill and Ruins at Shiloh. national sanctuary at Shiloh lost its prestige and au-thority. The climax of this deterioration was reachedin the conduct of the sons of Eli. This conduct wasan example in high places of the original disloyalty ofthe people to Jehovah, and, like previous infidelitiesto Him, it registered itself in material overthrow (1Sam. 4: 1-18). The most important sequences of mor-al defect are not physical and material, striking and 62 Old Testament History terrible as these often are, but they are moral and spir-itual, and these in turn propagate physical and materialresults, until the whole vicious series of moral andphysical causes and effects terminates in total ruin(Jas. i: 15). This narrative puts into sharp contrast the potentagencies of national deterioration and of national re-demption. The agency of national deterioration wasweak and evil men in high places. Up to this timeIsrael had been spared this last c
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