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Battle · The Judges1405 BC

Othniel delivers Israel from Cushan-rishathaim

Dated from the sources quoted below

True span4004 BC – AD 100
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Judges 3:7–11The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

OthnielCushan-rishathaim
Names and references: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

How we know the date

Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 1405 BC (its year of the world 2599 d).

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“2599. d. Othoniel Kenasi filius, Calebi gener’, e tribu Judx, judex, et vindex a Deo suscitatus, Cushane debellato, libertatem Israelitis restituit.”

Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 2599 d · gives 1405 BC

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