Here are a slew of texts highlighting God's glorious governance of all things (note the italics):
Judg. 10:6-8: "The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him. So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites, and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead."
Judg. 11:21: "And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them . . ." (cf. Judg. 11:32; see also Judg. 20:35).
Judg. 13:1: "And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years."
Judg. 14:1-4: "Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.
Then he came up and told his father and mother, 'I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.' But his father and mother said to him, 'Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?' But Samson said to his father, 'Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.' His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines."
Ask yourself how many times some "evil" comes to pass in these verses? And who's ruling over it? And, of course, he's ruling in righteousness without doing any wrong. Shall not the Judge of all the earth always do what is just (Gen. 18:25)?
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