Easton's Bible Dictionary

7. TOLA 23


8. JAIR 22
   ——
   95

THIRD PERIOD (10:6-CH. 12)

V. Servitude under Ammonites with the Philistines 18

9. JEPHTHAH 6


10. IBZAN 7


11. ELON 10


12. ABDON 8
    ——
    49

FOURTH PERIOD (13-16)

VI. Seritude under Philistines 40

13. SAMSON 20
    ——
    60

In all 410

Samson’s exploits probably synchronize with the period immediately
preceding the national repentance and reformation under Samuel (1 Samuel
7:2-6).

After Samson came Eli, who was both high priest and judge. He directed
the civil and religious affairs of the people for forty years, at the close of
which the Philistines again invaded the land and oppressed it for twenty
years. Samuel was raised up to deliver the people from this oppression,
and he judged Israel for some twelve years, when the direction of affairs
fell into the hands of Saul, who was anointed king. If Eli and Samuel are
included, there were then fifteen judges. But the chronology of this whole
period is uncertain.

(3.) The historic section of the book is followed by an appendix (17-21),
which has no formal connection with that which goes before. It records (a)