The Book of Judges is the seventh book of the Hebrew bible

Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...

 and the Christian Old Testament

Old Testament

The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...

. Its title describes its contents: it contains the history of Biblical judges

Biblical judges

A biblical judge is "a ruler or a military leader, as well as someone who presided over legal hearings."...

, divinely inspired prophets whose direct knowledge of Yahweh allows them to act as decision-makers for the Israelite

Israelite

According to the Bible the Israelites were a Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East who inhabited the Land of Canaan during the monarchic period .The word "Israelite" derives from the Biblical Hebrew ישראל...

s, as military deliverers from oppression for foreign rulers, and models of the proper behaviour required of them by their god Yahweh

Yahweh

Yahweh is the name of God in the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jews and Christians.The word Yahweh is a modern scholarly convention for the Hebrew , transcribed into Roman letters as YHWH and known as the Tetragrammaton, for which the original pronunciation is unknown...

 following the exodus from Egypt and conquest of Canaan.