When discussing the judges in the Old Testament, it is easy to envision the portrait of today’s adjudicators, considering the issues and passing a verdict. However, this view is incorrect as the men and women described in the book of Judges were considerably different than our understanding of the term. First, these judges of were called by God to rise and deliver their people from oppression, and turn the people back to worshiping God (Wilcox, 2014). Next, these judges called by God were militant and possessed a compelling personality (Tullock, & McEntire, 2012). Within this, the people God chooses to use are Deborah in a time when women were considered lowly, Gideon the doubter, Jephthah the son of a harlot, and Samson who went against the
