of Judges acts as a link between Joshua's death and the creation of the monarchy. ''Judges'' were utilized by God in order to bring the people back to him after leaving the laws of Moses. There are a lot of Judges in the book, but the major judges may be Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson. I think the book of Judges is best summed up by the verse, ''In those days there was no king in Israel, and everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.'' (Judges 21:25). It is hard to consider