Years after the Exodus. | |
Joshua, twenty-five years, from | 40 |
Anarchy and idolatry, thirty-four years, from | 65 |
First servitude, eight years, from | 99 |
Othniel. | |
Forty years’ rest, from | 107 |
Second servitude, fifteen years. | 147 |
Ehud. | 165 |
Third servitude of tribes in the northern parts of Canaan, twenty years. | 185 |
Shamgar delivers Israel. | 194 |
Deborah and Barak. | 203 |
Rest of forty years, which continues to the two hundred and forty-third year of the exodus. | |
Fourth servitude lasts seven years, from | 243 |
Gideon delivers Israel. | 253 |
Abimelech reigns three years at Shechem. | 293 |
Tola judges Israel twenty-three years. | |
Jair judges Israel twenty-two years. | |
Fifth servitude, eighteen years. | 340 |
Jephthah delivers Israel. | 363 |
While the Ammonites oppressed Israel on the other side of Jordan, the Philistines afflicted those on this side of that river forty years. Not delivered till the time of Samuel. | 383 |
During this interval, Ihzan judged Israel seven years; Elon ten; and Abdon eight years. | |
Saul reigns forty years. | 403 |
David reigns forty years, from | 443 |
The above is abridged from Dr. Clark’s “Preface to the Book of Judges.”-See Com. | |
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