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21:25 Final Verdict. The final editorial comment echoes earlier ones (17:6; 18:1; 19:1; see chart). Israel's apostasy had reached the depths, and the stage was set for the coming of a godly king, David, a man after God's own heart with whom God would make an everlasting covenant (cf. Ruth 4:17; 1 Samuel 16; 2 Samuel 7; see Introduction: Purpose, Occasion, and Background). The sympathetic reader who has followed the whole narrative is left yearning for such a king.