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CHRONOLOGY.
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of his people, defeated C'ushan, and delivered the• Israelites out of their bondage.
0(561 1343 After the death of Othniel, the Israelites falling
again into idolatry, God delivered them over intothe hands of Egion, king of Moab,' for eighteenyears.
2679 1325 The Israelites freed from the power of the Moabites
by Ehud.
2682 1322 About this time Belus the Assyrian, began his reign
in Babylon.
2699 1305 The Israelites, after the death of Ehud, returning
to their former iniquities, wpre given up by Godinto the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, for 20years.
2719 1285 Deborah, the wife of Eapidoth, a prophetess, who at
this time judged Israel in mount Ephraim, andBarak, of the tribe of Neplithali, the son ofAbinoam, being made captain of the host ofIsrael, in a tight at Megiddo, routed Sisera captainof Jabin’s army, and be being afterwards killed byJael, the wife of Ileber tile Kenile, in her owntent, with a nail struck into the temples of hishead, Deborah made a song thereof for a memo-rial of that victory.
2737 1267 Ninus, the son of Belus, founded the kingdom of the
Assyrians about this time.
2752 1252 The Israelites again transgressing are delivered
over into the hands of tile Midianites for sevenyears.
2759 1245 The Midianites vanquished by Gideon, the son of
Joash, the Abiezrite.
2768 1236 Upon Gideon’s death, the Israelites, falling again into
idolatry, worshipped Haalberith for their god;and Abimciech, the son of Gideon, purposing toget to himself the kingdom which his father hadrefused, slew' 69 of his brethren upon one stone.
The first Pythian games were celebrated by Adrastusking of Argos about this time.
2769 1235 When Abimelech, by tiie help of the Shechemites, was
made king, Jotliam, the youngest son of Gideon,who bad escaped out of the hands of Abimelech,expostulated with them in the wrong they’ haddone his father’s house, and by way of a parableforetold them of their ruin that would ensuethereon, and straightway made his escape toBeerith.
Minos reigned in Crete about this time.
Carmenta, the mother of Evander taught the Latinsfirst the use of letters.
The age of Hercules.
2771 1233 Abimelech having now reigned three years over the
Israelites, Gaal, a man of Shechem, made a con-spiracy against him, which being discovered tohim by iiebul, the city of Sliechem was utterly-destroyed, and sowed with salt, the inhabitantsall put to the sword, and the temple of their godBcrilh burnt; and Abimelech going from henceto besiege Thcbez, he was there struck on thehead with a piece of milstoae, cast upon him bya woman, and then slain outright by his own ar-mour-bearer.
2772 1232 Tola, the son of Puah, of the tribe of Issachar judged
Israel 23 years.
The Argonaulic expedition took place about thistime.
2781 1223 Argon, the son of Ninus first reigned in Sardis after
the Atyadans, whose posterity governed the king-dom of Lydia for 505 years.
About this time took place the Theban war of theseven heroes against Eleocies.
2789 1215 Semiramis reigned over Asia about this time.
2790 1214 The birth of Eli, the priest.
2792 1212 'I he rape of Helena by Theseus, and 15 years afterby Paris. About this time king Latinus began torei^u over the country which became afterwards
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the seat of the Homan empire. From this mo-narch the people that were before called Abori-gines by the Latin and Greek historians now ob-tained the name of Latins.
, About tiiis time Hercules renewed the Olympic
games which, 91 years before, were first institutedby Pelops in Peloponnesus.
2795 1209 Jair, a Gileadite succeeded Tola in the office of
judge of Israel, and ruled 22 years.
2799 1205 Tin* Erudites forsaking the true God, and worship-
ping idols, are given up into the hands of the Phi-listines and Ammonites for 18 years.
2810 1194 The beginning of the Trojan war.
2817 1187 Jephlinih, the Gileadite, subdued the Ammonites,
and judged Israel six years.
2820 1184 Troy taken by stratagem after a siege of ten years.
2823 1181 Death of Jephthah, the judge of Israel'. Ibzan, the
Bethieliemite, succeeds him, and governs thepeople for seven years.
2830 1174 Elon, the Zehulonite, succeeded Ibzan, and judged
Israel for ten years.
2831 1173 Semiramis slain bv her son Ninyas, who succeeds
her in the kingdom of Asia.
2840 1164 Elon dying, Abdon, the Ephraimite, judged Israel
for eight years.
The Areopagus established at Athens about this time.
2843 1156 Abdon dying, Eli the high priest judged Israel forty
years.
The Israelites for their idolatry delivered over intothe hands of the Philistines.
2849 1155 About this time Samson was born.
2855 1149 Alba Longa built.
2868 1136 Samson slew a thousand men of the Philistines with
the jaw-bone of an ass.
2871 1133 Samuel the prophet horn about this time.
2887 1117 Samson pulled down the temple of Dagon upon thePhilistines, by the fall of which both he and avery great number of the Philistines werekilled.
2894 1110 The Dorians took possession of the Peloponnesus.
2903 1101 The return of the Ileraclida' into Peloponnesus.
2909 1095 Saul anointed king of the Israelites by Samuel aboutthis time..
2919 1085 Birth of David who was afterwards king of the He-brews.
2936 1068 The war of the Athenians with the Spartans, in which
Codrus, the last king of the Athenians, causedhimself to be slain by one of the soldiers.
2938 1066 Medon, the son of Codrus, the first perpetual archon
of the Athenians.
2941 1063 David anointed king over Israel by Samuel.
2944 1060 David, fearing lie would one day tall into the hands
of Saul, tied to Gath unto king Achish, carryingwith him six hundred men ; and having obtainedof him the town of Ziklag to dwell in, he con-tinued in the land of the Philistines one year audfour months.
2949 1055 Saul’s army overthrown by the Philistines, and him-
self and his three sons slain.
Ishbosheth succeeded Saul in the kingdom of Israel,and reigned two years.
2957 1047 David with all Israel munched to Jerusalem against
the Jelmsites, and there took the fort of Zion ;and making Jerusalem the seat of his king,dotr, reigned there over all Israel thirty-three■ years.
2959 1045 David overcame the Philistines, and brought back
the ark of the Lord, which was fifty years in thehouse of Ahinadab.
Ephesus Infill by Audrocius about this time.
2961 1043 The Ionic migration.
2968 1036 David passing over Jordan with his army vanquished
the Syrians which were led by Sboback, generalof tlu 1 Syrian army ; whereupon a peace followedbetween David and the petty kings of Syria.
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