Second Round of Judgment and Salvation (6:1–7:20): God’s dispute with Israel takes the form of a legal proceeding. It is as if God, calling on creation to serve as witness to his complaint against his people, has taken Israel to court. The background of this section is found in the covenant God established with his people. The covenant was like a treaty between God as king and Israel as his people. Before witnesses, the people responded to God’s gracious acts of deliverance by receiving God’s law and promising to obey it (Exodus 19–24). Now that the peopl…