Analysis of Sacred Chronology

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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.
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