Theme: This passage tells us of three judges who kept the peace in Israel between periods of trouble.

Theme: Jephthah's return to his people is a picture of God's grace to the people who rejected Him.

Theme: In the light of the Lord Jesus' High Priestly Mediatorship, the writer highlights the glories of the New Covenant.

Theme: A devotion to man-made traditions can pull us away from a relationship of love and obedience with God.