ANd there was] It is not certainly known and agreed upon, when the things related in this, and the following Chapters were done: But learned expositors upon evident grounds, do agree, That they hapned not after the death of Samson, but long before, and soon after the death of Joshua, and the elders that lived with him, when religion was most corrupted, and idolatry set up, Chap. 2. 11. And that these stories were annexed to the end of this book, that the history of the Judges might be continued without interruption: For Jonathan the Danites priest, was the son of Manasseh, Moses his grand-childe, who dyed long before Samsons times, Chap. 18. 30. And the following story of the Levites wife, and the warre with the Benjamites (which hapned after this here related, as appeareth, Chap. 19. 1.) sheweth, that these things were all done, when Phinehas the grand-son of Aaron was high priest, Chap. 20. 28. Which place he executed in the first times of the Judges.