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Book of Judges   /bʊk əv dʒˈədʒɪz/   Listen
Book of Judges

noun
1.
A book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges.  Synonym: Judges.






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"Book of judges" Quotes from Famous Books



... hardly a people Israel,—only individual tribes which do not combine even under the most pressing necessities, far less support at a common expense a clerical personnel numbering thousands of men, besides their wives and families. Instead of the Ecclesiastical History of the Hexateuch, the Book of Judges forthwith enters upon a secular history completely devoid of all churchly character. The high priest, who according to the Priestly Code is the central authority by the grace of God, is here quite left out in the cold, for the really acting heads ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... about giving gifts to friends. So he went on to Leviticus. But it was about the wave-offering, and the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering. That was not it, and so he went from book to book until he had reached the twelfth and thirteenth verses of the fourteenth chapter of the book of Judges. He was just reading in that place about Samson's riddle, when his ...
— Queer Stories for Boys and Girls • Edward Eggleston



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