APPENDIX

CHRONOLOGY OF THE JUDGES, ACCORDING TO ARCHBISHOP USHER

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. Ehud delivers Israel. 2679 Shumgar.-The land enjoys rest to the eightieth year from the termination of the first deliverance. 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. 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