Under the Judges: Public affairs administered four hundred and fifty years by the judges, Judg. 2:16–19; Acts 13:20. The original inhabitants not fully expelled, Judg. 1:27–36; 3:1–7. Reproved by an angel for not casting out the original inhabitants, Judg. 2:1–5. People turn to idolatry, Judg. 2:10–23. Delivered for their idolatry to the king of Mesopotamia during eight years; their repentance and deliverance, Judg. 3:8–11. Renew their idolatry, and are put under tribute to the king of Moab during eighteen years; repent and are delivered by Ehud; eighty years of peace follow, Judg. 3:12–30. Shamgar resists a foray of the Philistines and delivers Israel, Judg. 3:31. People again do evil and are put under bonds for twenty years to the king of Syria, Judg. 4:1–3. Delivered by Deborah, a prophetess, and judged, Judg. 4; 5. Seven years of bondage to the Midianites; delivered by Gideon, Judg. 6; 7; 8:1–28; see Gideon. Return to idolatry, Judg. 8:33, 34. Abimelech foments an inter-tribal war, Judg. 9. Judged by Tola twenty-three years, Judg. 10:1, 2; by Jair twenty-two years, Judg. 10:3, 4. People backslide, and are given over to the Philistines for chastisement eighteen years; repent and turn to the Lord; delivered by Jephthah, Judg. 10:6–18; 11. Ephraimites go to war against other tribes; defeated by Jephthah, Judg. 12:1–7. Judged by Ibzan seven years, Judg. 12:8–10; by Elon ten years, Judg. 12:11, 12; by Abdon eight years, Judg. 12:13–15. Backslide again and are chastised by the Philistines forty years, Judg. 13:1. Judged by Samson twenty years, Judg. 15:20; 13–16. Scandal of the Bethlehemite’s concubine, and the consequent war between the Benjamites and the other tribes, Judg. 19–21. Judged by Eli forty years, 1 Sam. 4:18; 1–4. Struck by the Philistines at Eben-ezer, 1 Sam. 4:1, 2, 10, 11. Demand a king, 1 Sam. 8:5–20; Hos. 13:10.