In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

* Jael assassinates Sisera, a retreating general who was the enemy of the Israelites, according to Judges 5: 23 – 27.

At July 2008, there were 44 judges ( 5 of whom were also Judges of the Family Court of Western Australia ), 2 judicial registrars and 1 senior registrar.

* Judges 3: 13 ; 5: 14 ; 6: 3, 33 ; 7: 12 ; 10: 12 ; 12: 15

In the Song of Deborah, the tribe is specially singled out as having " offered their lives to death in the region of Merom ," ( Judges 5: 18 ); and praised because there came " out of Zebulun they that led the army to fight ," as in Hebrew, " they that carry the pen of the writer ," i. e., such as recruiting and inspecting officers ( Judges 5: 14 ).

It was originally proposed by Markus Reiner, a professor at Technion in Israel, inspired by a verse in the Bible, stating " The mountains flowed before the Lord " in a song by prophetess Deborah ( Judges 5: 5 ).

According to the Sephardic tradition, a full 101 blasts are sounded, corresponding to the 100 cries of the mother of Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army who did not return home after being killed by the Yael ( Judges 5: 28 ).

* " Interviews by the Attorney-General in Appointing Judges " ( 2003 ) 5 Constitutional Law and Policy Review 68.

Judges were given 5 % of confiscated cargo, if they found a smuggling defendant guilty.

According to Ulrich Luz the beginning of the narrative of Matthew is similar to earlier biblical stories, e. g. the Annunciation of Jesus ' birth ( 1: 18-25 ) is reminiscent of the biblical accounts of the births of Ishmael, Isaac and Samson ( Genesis 16: 11, 17 ; 19 ; Judges 13: 3, 5 ) and it recalls the Haggadic traditions of the birth of Moses.

Menken also states that it may be referring to Judges 13: 5, 7.

In this way, we have Jewish names like Asmodai ( Book of Tobit ), Azazel ( Leviticus 16: 8-10 ), or Belial ( Deuteronomy 13: 13, Book of Judges 19: 22, Books of Samuel, part 1, 1: 16, 2: 12 10: 27 and 25: 17, and part 2 16: 7 and 22: 5, Books of Kings part 1, 21: 10-13, Books of Chronicles, part 1, 13: 7 ); Semitic deities like Adramelech, Baal ( see Baal ( demon ), Baal was also a general Jewish name for a false god ), Ashtaroth ( derived from Astarte ); Greek, Roman and Egyptian names like Bifrons ( See Bifrons ( demon )), Lamia, Phoenix ( see Phenex ); and so on.

A special kind of rhythm was produced by the frequent employment of the so-called anadiplosis, a mode of speech in which the phrase at the end of one sentence is repeated at the beginning of the next, as, for instance, in the passages " they came not to the help of the Lord to protect God's people, to the help of the Lord against the mighty " ( Judges 5: 23 ; compare " ẓidḳot " and " nilḥamu " b ), and " From whence shall my help come?

These include fables, like that of Jotham ( Judges 9: 7-15, although in prose ); parables, like those of Nathan and others ( 2 Samuel 12: 1-4, 14: 4-9 ; 1 Kings 20: 39 and following, all three in prose ), or in the form of a song ( Isaiah 5: 1-6 ); riddles ( Judges 14: 14 and following ; Proverbs 30: 11 and following ); maxims, as, for instance, in 1 Samuel 15: 22, 24: 14, and the greater part of Proverbs ; the monologues and dialogues in Job 3: 3 and following ; compare also the reflections in monologue in Ecclesiastes.

Deborah (, ) was a prophetess of the God of the Israelites, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel, counselor, warrior, and the wife of Lapidoth according to the Book of Judges chapters 4 and 5.

Judges chapter 5 gives the same story in poetic form.

The Biblical account of Deborah ends in Judges 5.

The Song of Deborah is found in Judges 5: 2-31 and is a victory hymn, sung by Deborah and Barak, about the defeat of Canaanite adversaries by some of the tribes of Israel.

The accounts of Judges 4 and 5 tell the story of a battle at Taanach near the River Kishon.

The etymology of the word into English is from Old French Philistin, from Classical Latin Philistinus found in the writings of Josephus, from Late Greek Philistinoi ( Phylistiim in the Septuagint ) found in the writings by Philo, from Hebrew Plištim, ( e. g. 1 Samuel 17: 36 ; 2 Samuel 1: 20 ; Judges 14: 3 ; Amos 1: 8 ), " people of Plešt " (" Philistia "); cf.

The sling is mentioned in the Bible, which provides what is believed to be the oldest textual reference to a sling in the Book of Judges, 20: 16.

# The Rock of Rimmon was where the Benjamites fled ( Judges 20: 45, 47 ; 21: 13 ), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the fearful battle at Gibeah, in which they were almost exterminated, 600 only surviving out of about 27, 000.

6: 4 ; Judges 3: 27 ; 7: 16, 20 ; I Sam.

Of these 27 occurences the idiom " sons of Belial " ( ב ְּ נ ֵֽ י ־ ב ְ ל ִ י ַּ ע ַ ל beni beliyaal ) appears 15 times to indicate worthless people, including ; idolators ( Deuteronomy 13: 13 ), the men of Gibeah ( Judges 19: 22, 20: 13 ), and the sons of Eli ( 1 Samuel 2: 12, Nabal and Shimei ) and so on.

Its position is indicated in the Bible: it lay north of Bethel and Shiloh, on the high road going from Jerusalem to the northern districts ( Judges xxi, 19 ), at a short distance from Michmethath ( Joshua 17: 7 ) and of Dothain ( Genesis 37: 12-17 ); it was in the hill-country of Ephraim ( Joshua 20: 7 ; 21: 21 ; 1 Kings 12: 25 ; 1 Chronicles 6: 67 ; 7: 28 ), immediately below Mount Gerizim ( Judges 9: 6-7 ).

The name of the ministry and publication is taken from a phrase in Judges 7: 20: " And they cried, The Sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

It was originally called Kiriat Arba, or Kiriat-ha-Arba ( D. V. Cariath-Arbe, Genesis 23: 2, 35: 27 ; Joshua 14: 15, 15: 13, 15: 54, 20: 7, 21: 11 ; Judges 1: 10 ; Nehemiah 11: 25 ) from the name of Arba, “ the greatest among the Enacims ” ( Joshua 14: 15 ).

Judges Rose Byrne, Judah Friedlander, Jennifer Westfeldt, Scott Foundas and Ted Hope awarded the $ 20, 000 first prize to director Josh Leake for his film " Emptys ".

The Board is made up of 20 Judges and 18 non-judicial members, and was chaired for many years by Judge David J. Carruthers.

References to voluntarily falling as the result of feeling overwhelmed by a divine presence are found in Numbers 22: 31, Judges 13: 20, Ezekiel 1: 28, Ezekiel 3: 23, Ezekiel 43: 3, Ezekiel 44: 4, Daniel 8: 17 and Matthew 17: 6.

# Judges appointed pursuant to the Midnight Judges Act on or after February 20, 1801, and thereafter removed from office with the repeal of that Act on July 1, 1802.

** Homosexual practices appear to be condemned in Judges 19: 1 – 20: 48 ( cf.

Trial Chamber III composed of Judges Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca, Khalida Rachid Khan and Lee Gacuiga Muthoga, on Thursday 18 December 2008, convicted Protais Zigiranyirazo of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity and sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment.

The Book of Judges ( 9: 45 ) says that Abimelech, the judge of the Israelites, sowed his own capital, Shechem, with salt, ca.

One popular suggestion is Judges 13: 5 where of Samson it says " the child shall be a Nazirite.

The most similar known passage is Judges where of Samson it says the child shall be a Nazirite, where a nazirite was a specific type of religious ascetic.

Joshua forms part of the biblical history of the emergence of Israel which begins with the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, continues with their conquest of Canaan under their leader Joshua ( the subject matter of the book of Joshua ), and culminates in Judges with the settlement of the tribes in the land.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

" The extermination of the nations glorifies Yahweh as a warrior and promotes Israel's claim to the land ," while their continued survival " explores the themes of disobedience and penalty and looks forward to the story told in Judges and Kings.

By the end of Judges the Israelites are in a worse condition than they were at the beginning, with Yahweh's treasures used to make idolatrous images, the Levites ( priests ) corrupted, the tribe of Dan conquering a remote village instead of the Canaanite cities, and the tribes of Israel making war on the Benjamites, their own brothers.

Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.

This is the theme played out in Judges: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies ; the people then repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a judge ; the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression, but after a while they fall into unfaithfulness again and the cycle is repeated.

During the time of the Judges when there was a famine, an Israelite family from Bethlehem — Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon and Chilion — emigrate to the nearby country of Moab.

Later, a line of Judges ( who were not kings as they only had the power to provide insight to the people and not to take action to enforce their rulings ) was created alongside the line of High Priests created by Moses through Aaron.

Judges must strain to remove the influence of the merits from their jurisdictional rules.

Judges at the House of Lords secured their position by mere virtue of the fact that their fathers were hereditary peers and so individuals would automatically inherit seats in the upper house rather than securing their position through merit.

Judges ’ security of tenure is also guaranteed by the constitutional requirement that the judiciary ’ s salaries are paid from the Consolidated fund and thus the government may not diminish or amend them to their prejudice.

Judges have accepted that the principle of party autonomy allows the parties to select the law most appropriate to their transaction.

Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ( list of grievances including ) ... by causing severall good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law, ( Recital regarding the change of monarch ) ... thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation takeing into their most serious Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done ) for the Vindicating and Asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ( list of rights including ) ... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

Judges receive only token payment for their efforts ($ 25 per story adjudicated ).

Judges marked on their own opinions.

Judges are, for the duration of their term, beneficiaries of the privileges and immunities provided in Article 4 of the Statute of the Council of Europe.