After the battle, it was announced to him that Barak and the other kings who had made submission to him had taken advantage of the rising of the kings of the five cities to renounce their allegiance, and to return to the worship of false gods. Therefore Joshua prayed, “O Lord! because they have become unfaithful, take from them their riches, and make them poor, that they may become bondsmen; and that their king may fall into misery!” Joshua was sick and unable to march against them. He was aged a hundred and twenty-eight years. He was a hundred years old when Moses died, and he governed Israel twenty-eight years.[591] For the benefit of coin-collectors, the following information is inserted. “On the coins struck by Abraham are figured, on the obverse, an old man and an ass; on the reverse, a boy and a girl. On the coins of Joshua are, on one side a bull, on the other a unicorn. On those of David, on one side a staff and wallet, on the other a tower. On those of Mordecai, on the obverse, sackcloth and ashes; and on the reverse, a crown.”[592] After Joshua, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Othniel, the son of Kenaz,[593] Caleb’s brother, governed Israel. They collected the people, and marched against Barak (Adoni-bezek)[594] and his people who had apostatized, and attacked them, and slew great numbers of them. They took the king and cut off his thumbs. This Barak had, during his reign, treated seventy kings in like fashion, so that they were unable to pick up anything off the ground. And when Barak was feasting, these kings were brought before him. Then he cast bread among them, but they were unable to pick it up, having no thumbs, and they were obliged to stoop to the ground, and take it in their mouths like dogs; and this caused huge merriment to the king.[595] Footnote 584: Tabari, i. p. 396. Footnote 585: Talmud of Jerusalem; Tract. Terumoth. Footnote 586: Josh. vii. 1-5. Footnote 587: Tabari, i. p. 402. Footnote 588: Koran, Sura ii. v. 55, 56. Footnote 589: Tabari, p. 404. Footnote 590: Tabari, p. 401. Footnote 591: Ibid. p. 404. Footnote 592: Berescheth Rabba. Footnote 593: The Mussulmans say Khasqîl or Ezechiel. Footnote 594: Judges i. 4. Footnote 595: Tabari, i. p. 404. XXXIV. THE JUDGES. If Joshua, the first of the Judges, has, to a great extent, escaped the hands of legend manufacturers, the same may be said of his successors, Phinehas, Othniel, Ehud, Deborah and Barak, Gibeon, Abimelech, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon. Even Samson has not been surrounded by such a multitude of traditions as might have been expected. The Mussulmans have little to say of him, and the Jewish legends are not numerous.