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A. M. |
| Death of Joshua. |
2570 |
| The time of the elders who survived Joshua, and seven years of anarchy and rest, after which the Israelites fell under the domination of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia. |
2591 |
| Othniel delivered Israel. |
2599 |
| The land enjoys rest about sixty-two years. |
2662 |
| Second servitude, eighteen years. |
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| Ehud delivers Israel. |
2679 |
| Shumgar.-The land enjoys rest to the eightieth year from the termination of the first deliverance. |
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| The third servitude, twenty years, from |
2699 |
| Deborah and Barak deliver Israel. |
2719 |
| From the deliverance procured by Ehud, to the end of the government of Deborah and Barak, forty years. |
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| Ninus, forming a league with Arius, king of the Arabs, conquered the whole of Asia, and governed it for seventeen years. He reigned in all fifty-two years. |
2737 |
| The fourth servitude, seven years, from |
2762 |
| Gideon delivers Israel. |
2759 |
| From the rest procured by Deborah and Barak to the deliverance by Gideon, forty years. Abimelech kills seventy of his brethren. |
2768 |
| Abimelech is proclaimed king. |
2769 |
| He reigns three years. |
2771 |
| Tola governs twenty-three years, from |
2772 |
| The commencement of the kingdom of the Lydians. |
2781 |
| Jair succeeds Tola twenty-two years, from |
2789 |
| The fifth servitude eighteen years, from |
2795 |
| God delivers the Israelites who dwelt beyond Jordan. |
2799 |
| Death of Jair, chap. 10:5. |
2816 |
| Jephthah defeats the Ammonites. |
2817 |
| Death of Jephthah. Ibzan governs seven years. |
2820 |
| Elon succeeds him, and governs ten years. |
2823 |
| Abdon judges Israel eight years, from |
2840 |
| Eli judges Israel, after Abdon, forty years. |
2848 |
| The sixth servitude, under the Philistines, which lasted forty years, chap. 13:1. It began seven years after the commencement of the government of Eli. |
| The birth of Samson, chap. 13:24. |
2849 |
| The death of Eli, and the beginning of the government of Samuel, who delivers Israel from the oppression of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 7:14. |
2888 |