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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Chushan-rishathayim (King living before Israel's Monarchy)
God let this king of Aram-naharaim hold Israel down for eight years, the first foreign oppression in Judges. Othniel, Caleb's younger kinsman, beat him, and the land had forty years of peace. The name means something like doubly wicked Cushan, which may be a Hebrew jab rather than what he was really called.
God let this king of Aram-naharaim hold Israel down for eight years, the first foreign oppression in Judges. Othniel, Caleb's younger kinsman, beat him, and the land had forty years of peace. The name means something like doubly wicked Cushan, which may be a Hebrew jab rather than what he was really called.
Chushan-rishathayim was a king of Aram-naharaim (Mesopotamia) whom God allowed to oppress Israel for eight years during the period of the judges, the first of the foreign oppressions recorded in Judges. Israel cried out to the LORD, who raised up Othniel, Caleb's younger kinsman, to defeat him and secure forty years of peace (Judges 3:8-11). His title, which means something like “doubly wicked Cushan,” may be a Hebrew wordplay on his actual name rather than his given name.
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- Judges 3:8
- Judges 3:10
