* A.M. 2591-2909.  B.C. 1413-1095.  the Lord.
  3:9,10,15  4:5  6:14  1Sa 12:11  Ac 13:20 
 * judges.
   The {shophetim} were not judges in the usual sense of the
   term; but were heads or chiefs of the Israelites, raised up on
   extraordinary occasions, who directed and ruled the nation
   with sovereign power, administered justice, made peace or war,
   and led the armies over whom they presided.  Officers with the
   same power, and nearly the same name, were established in New
   Tyre, after the termination of the regal state; and the
   Carthaginian Suffetes, the Athenian Archons, and the Roman
   Dictators, appear to have been nearly the same.

 * delivered.  Heb. saved.
  Ne 9:27  Ps 106:43-45