Justin Donathan asked how Judges is connected to rest/shekinah.

“It seems as if there is very little rest or glory in Judges. There are flashes of it, but then things always get fouled up. It seems that the overall motif is that everyone did whatever they wanted and so they never had any lasting rest. Obviously this is always true until Jesus comes, but in terms of the theme or motif of the book I wouldn’t have thought rest/sabbath/shekinah for Judges. After all, I Samuel starts out where Judges leaves off and it’s not a very pretty picture.”

James Jordan says that as soon as Adam/Israel/Solomon gets the Garden he squanders it.

Also, the matrix pattern begins with an individual mediator (external law – Moses) and ends with a corporate mediator. It begins with Elohim and ends with elohim (“ye are gods”), a people of internal law, self-governing, self legislating. This is where Israel failed. They were too immature to serve an unseen king. And Justin is right, it wasn’t until Christ that Moses’ wish for “all the Lord’s people” to be prophets (internal Law) was fulfilled.

Samuel is a new beginning, a boy dressed in linen, sleeping in the Most Holy.

“Well, I don’t think he was sleeping in the Most Holy place, just the tabernacle precincts “where the ark was.” He wouldn’t have been allowed in the MHP, being just a levite and not even a priest, much less high priest. And even if he were, no one ever slept in there… I admit the language can be read that way, but after listening to JBJ’s lectures and reading Leithart on the passage, I’m pretty well convinced that he couldn’t have literally been sleeping in the MHP.”

I can believe that, for sure. But David ate the facebread. The Lord seems to overlook the rules and grant unlikely access to chosen sons. Perhaps the text is deliberately ambiguous.