Chushan-rishathaim definition

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Chushan-rishathaim
     Cush of double wickedness, or governor of two presidencies, the
     king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel in the generation
     immediately following Joshua (Judg. 3:8). We learn from the
     Tell-el-Amarna tablets that Palestine had been invaded by the
     forces of Aram-naharaim (A.V., "Mesopotamia") more than once,


     long before the Exodus, and that at the time they were written
     the king of Aram-naharaim was still intriguing in Canaan. It is
     mentioned among the countries which took part in the attack upon
     Egypt in the reign of Rameses III. (of the Twentieth Dynasty),
     but as its king is not one of the princes stated to have been
     conquered by the Pharaoh, it would seem that he did not actually
     enter Egypt. As the reign of Rameses III. corresponds with the
     Israelitish occupation of Canaan, it is probable that the
     Egyptian monuments refer to the oppression of the Israelites by
     Chushan-rishathaim. Canaan was still regarded as a province of
     Egypt, so that, in attacking it Chushan-rishathaim would have
     been considered to be attacking Egypt.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Chushan-rishathaim, blackness of iniquities
  

















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