You have to be in my age bracket to remember this comical song, but I could not resist the opportunity to use that title even though it was grammatically incorrect. During the hundreds of years after Joshua before God finally relented and gave Israel a king, He used "judges" to manage the disobedient people. The last verse lets us know how that period went. "... all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes "
Bible References: Judges 3 - 21: 25