{"id":1204,"count":15,"description":"The judges which governed in Israel were, from the death of Joshua until the Israelites demanded a king over them, and Saul was appointed, a period of about three hundred and thirty-nine years. The Book of Judges is supposed to have been written by Samuel. \r\n\r\nTheir power extended over portions of the country only, and some of them were contemporaneous. Their chief work was that of deliverers and captains in war. While Samuel as a judge gave something like a settled government to the south, there was scope for the irregular exploits of Samson on the borders of the Philistines. Samuel at last established his authority as judge and prophet, but stall as the servant of God, only to see it so abused by his sons as to exhaust the patience of the people, who at length demanded a King, after the pattern of the surrounding nations. \r\n\r\nThe following is a partial list of the judges, and the approximate length of their rule: \r\nFirst judge: Othniel\u201440 years; Second judge: Ehud\u201460 years; Third judge: Shamgar\u2014unknown. Fourth judge: Deborah and Barak\u201410 years. Fifth judge: Gideon\u201440 years; Sixth judge: Abimelech\u20143 years; Seventh judge: Tola\u201423 years; Eighth judge: Jair\u201422 years; Ninth judge: Jephthah\u20146 years; Tenth judge: Ibzan\u20147 years; Eleventh judge: Elon\u201410 years; Twelfth judge: Abdon\u20148 years; Thirteenth judge: Samson\u201420 years; Fourteenth judge: Eli\u201440 years; Fifteenth judge: Samuel.","link":"https:\/\/cms.bibleportal.com\/zh\/tag\/judges\/","name":"Judges","slug":"judges","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.bibleportal.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.bibleportal.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.bibleportal.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.bibleportal.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=1204"},{"href":"https:\/\/cms.bibleportal.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bible-story?tags=1204"},{"href":"https:\/\/cms.bibleportal.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bible_study?tags=1204"},{"href":"https:\/\/cms.bibleportal.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/quote?tags=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}