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A Connection of Sacred and Profane History, From the Death of Joshua to the Decline of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
A Connection of Sacred and Profane History From the Death of Joshua to the Decline of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah Author:Michael Russell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: TABLE XIII. Years. From exode to death of Moses, 40 Joshua and elders, - £5 Anarchy, 2 I. Servitude, under Cushan Rishathaim, 8 Othniel, - - 40 II. Servitude under Moabites, - 18 Ehud and Shamgar, - 80 III. Servitude under the Canaanites, SO Deborah and Barak, - 40 IV. Servitude under Midianites, - 7 Gideon, 4O Abimelech, - 9 Tola, - . 22 Jair, 22 V. Servitude under Ammonites, - 18 Jephtha, - - 6 Ibzan, - - -7 Elon, - - 10 Abdon, - 8 VI. Servitude under Philistines, Samson last 20 years, - - 40 Eli was judge 40 years, but 20 of them with Samson, - - 20 The Hebrew text, Josephus, the Vulgate Latin, the Chaldee Paraphrase, the Syritic and Arabic versions, assign to Eli forty years; but most of the Greek copies give only twenty years, as do also the Alexandrian and Vatican manuscripts. Theophilus bishop of Antioch, Sulpicius Severus, and Procopius of Gaza, have followed the authority of the Greek. It is most probable, as I have stated in the table, that of the forty years given to EU, he spent twenty in the days of the Philistines, while Samson waged a predatory war with that people; and the other twenty after the death of this Hebrew champion. -- Chron. Atttiq. vol. i. p. 140. Years. VII. Servitude or anarchy, - 20.7?. Samuel alone, - - 12 Samuel and Saul, - 40 David, - 40 Solomon, ' - - 3 Foundation of temple after the exode, 591.7"1. The sum here produced agrees, both in the amount and in the several parts, with the inspired record; for upon inspection it will be found, that, from the division of the land, six years after the death of Moses, down to the administration of ...« less