Acts 13:20
Then he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. This took about four hundred and fifty years.
Judges 2:16
Nevertheless Jehovah established judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
1 Samuel 3:20
All Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew Samuel was Jehovah's appointed prophet.
Judges 3:10
The Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and he became Israel's leader (judge). Othniel went to war, and Jehovah gave him the victory over the king of Mesopotamia.
Ruth 1:1
There was a famine in the land in the days when the judges ruled. And a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
1 Samuel 12:11
Jehovah sent Gideon, Barak, Jephthah, and finally me. Each of us rescued you from your enemies. You lived in safety.
2 Samuel 7:11
when I let judges rule my people. I have kept your enemies from attacking you. Now I promise that you and your descendants will be kings.
2 Kings 23:22
Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah.
1 Chronicles 17:6
In all the places where I have moved with the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders whom I commanded to shepherd my people: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
Acts 3:24
Yes, all the prophets from Samuel and his successors also announced these days.