'Rulers' in the Bible

The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."