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TABLE 2. Locations of the Six Oppressions |
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Oppressions Cushan
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Note: A popular view
places the Exodus in the time of Ramesses II as in the movie, Exodus.
Kenneth A. Kitchen and Jack Finegan place the exodus in about 1250 to 1260
BC, about 40 years before Pharaoh Merneptah of Egypt’s Dynasty XIX. This only
allows about 111 years for the oppressions and judges. In this view, the reigns
of Abimilech, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibsan Elon and Abdon (79 years
altogether) are included in years in which the land had rest (200 years
total), and this may explain how Jair, Jephthah, Moses’ grandson and Aaron’s
grandson are still living at the end of Judges. The Ammonites were allied
with the Philistines during the Ammonite Oppression (Judges 10:6). This may
include Samson’s 20 years (Judges 15:20). The Philistine Oppression
undoubtedly included Eli’s 40 years (I Sam. 4:18). Even though there may have been 251 years from the
Exodus to the temple, each generation is represented as 40 years Some believe
the 480 years of the tabernacle in the wilderness until the temple represent
12 generations times 40 (Num. 32:13). Moses was 40 when he fled Egypt, 80 at
the Exodus (Ex. 7:7), and died at 120 (Deut. 34:7). After in the wilderness
40 years (Num. 32:13), Othniel’s rest 40 (Judges 3:11), Ehud’s rest 80
(Judges 3:30), Deborah’s rest 40 (Judges 5:31), Gideon 40 (Judges 8:28),
Philistines 40 (Judges 13:1), Eli 40 (I Sam. 4:18), Saul 40 (Acts 13:21),
David 40 (I Kings 2:10), and Solomon 40 (I Kings 11:42). From the Exodus to
the temple, the were 480 years (12 x 40), as in I Kings 6:1. Nevertheless, there were only six generations from
Nashon at the Exodus until David (Num. 1:7; I Chron. 2:10-15; Ruth 4:20-22;
Matt. 1:4-6; Luke 3:31-32). Therefore, if there were 12 periods of 40 years
cited, they were not 12 generations but only six from the Exodus to David and
seven to Solomon, that is, about 251 years, not 479 or 590. According to W. F. Albright and S. Smith,
Hammurabi died in about 1686-1674 BC. If so, Hammurabi may have been the
“Aramphel” killed by Abraham before Abraham was age 86.
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