"In those days there was no king in Israel...all the people did what was right in their own eyes."The book of Judges concludes as the author illustrates the depths to which the Israelites have sunk without a Godly king on the throne: moral decay, social depravity, kidnapping, rape, murder, war and genocide. Civil war erupts between the people of Israel with one tribe (Benjamin) almost completely obliterated in an act of furious rage and revenge. Although the Israelites made one last attempt to seek God's council, they go far beyond what God expected and nearly destroyed the fragile alliance of tribes kept God's people together for almost 400 years.