Warrior of the Heart came in a rather round-about way. It wasn’t a scripture that caught my eye. This account is not one to come that way. 

This is probably the book that came from the deepest part of my faith.

I had heard, over and over again, that women are not treated well in the Bible. I can see how many believe that, but as I explain in my Author’s Note at the back of this book, it is a philosophy I do not subscribe to.

Particularly in this account. It is, to be frank, an ugly account. There is no way to pretty it up. It is vile and brutal—when it starts. It takes looking at it in its entirety before the full depth of God’s care for women comes shining thriough.

The whole war was to avenge a woman and to punish the tribe that treated her death as of no account.

The nation sent a delegation to demand that the men who did this thing be turned over. The men in that delegation called it “a terrible thing,” and the men responsible were called “worthless.” The city who refused to participate was destroyed.

Imagine what a difference that would make in the behavior of “worthless men” (as Judges describes it) if they knew hat an entire nation would come up against them to make them pay for the abuse of women.

I gave Aksah as many of the arguments against the behavior of those men in Gibeah as I could work into the story.

Read Warrior of the Heart, and remember that the judgement against the tribe of Benjamin was in defense of one woman.

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