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Conquest and judges

Cushan-rishathaim oppresses Israel

1413–1405 BCUssher date

Judges 2:6–3:8

A new generation that didn't know Yahweh served the Baals, and God let a king of Mesopotamia rule them for eight years.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

Judges 2:10 (World English Bible)

Judges 2 lays out the pattern of the whole book: Israel sins, God gives them over to enemies, they cry out, God raises up a deliverer, and when the judge dies they turn back to idols, often worse than before.

Places

Mesopotamia

Dating notes

Eight years (Judges 3:8). Ussher overlaps some oppressions and rest periods, counting each rest from the previous deliverance, so that the judges fit the 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1.

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