At length they had remembered that, by ancient law and custom the trial of an Israelite, for life or death, must end an hour after sunset.
Also they had been reminded that the day that heard the evidence in a capital case must not be the same whereon the verdict was pronounced.

So they had broken up and returned home.

And, going out at the gate, they had told the crowds that waited there that judgment had fallen upon Israel ben Oliel, but that his doom could not be made known until sunset on the following day.
That time was now come.

In eagerness and impatience, in hot blood and anger, the people had gathered in the Sok three hours after midday.

The Judges had reassembled in the synagogue in the early morning.