In the beginning of Judges, Israel obeys God and fights the Canaanites and inherits the land that He had promised them. But in our passage today, the faith of Israel begins to waver. They do not trust God to deliver His enemies into their hands, and so they fail to drive out the Canaanites from the land. The story is one of faith, or rather the lack thereof, and how unbelief and disobedience are one and the same. Israel did not believe. Israel did not obey. And so Israel suffers the consequences.