The Book of Judges is the seventh book of the Hebrew bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its title describes its contents: it contains the history of Biblical judges, divinely inspired prophets whose direct knowledge of Yahweh allows them to act as decision-makers for the Israelites, as military deliverers from oppression by foreign rulers, and models of the proper behaviour required of them by their god Yahweh following the exodus from Egypt and conquest of Canaan.[1] The events of Judges takes place "between c. 1380 [B.C.E.] and the rise of Saul, c. 1050."[2] The stories follow a consistent pattern: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies; the people then repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a judge; the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression, but after a while they fall into unfaithfulness again and the cycle is repeated.

Judges forms part of Deuteronomistic history, a theologically-oriented history of Israel from the entry into Canaan to the destruction of the Temple; the details of this history's composition are still widely debated, but most scholars place its origins, or at least its final form, in the 6th century BCE and the community of the Babylonian exile.[4] Nevertheless, fragments of Judges (such as the Song of Deborah) have been dated from much earlier, perhaps close to the period the book depicts.[

Samson is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) (Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16).

Samson was granted supernatural strength by God in order to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats[5] such as wrestling a lion,[4][6][7][8] slaying an entire army with only the jawbone of an ass,[3][4][7][8][9] and destroying a pagan temple.[2][4][8] Samson is believed to have been buried in Tel Tzora in Israel overlooking the Sorek valley. There reside two large gravestones of Samson and his father Manoah. Nearby stands Manoah?s altar (Judges 13:19-24).[10] It is located between the cities of Zorah and Eshtaol.

The 1949 film, Samson and Delilah, is adapted from the Biblical Book of Judges. The film was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starred Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters. Angela Lansbury, George Sanders and Henry Wilcoxon are also featured. Read article at Wikipedia