Chushan-Rishathaim
CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM
A king of Mesopotamia, who oppressed the Israelites eight years, but was defeated by Othniel, Caleb’s nephew, Jdg 3:8-10 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Chushan-Rishathaim
(Heb. Kushan’ Rishaatha’yim, , Sept. , Vulg. Chusan-Rasathaim), the king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel during eight years (B.C. 15751567) in the generation immediately following Joshua (Jdg 3:8). The name, if Hebrew, would signify Cush (comp. CUSHAN, Hab 3:7) of the two wickednesses; but First (Heb. Handworterb. s.v.) compares the Arabic signification, chief of two governments (see Abulf. Ann. 2, p. 100), with reference to the two- fold form of Aram-Naharaim (q.v.). Josephus (Ant. 5, 3, 2) calls him Chusarthus (), king of the Assyrians.
The seat of his dominion was probably the region between the Euphrates and the modern Khabour, to which the name of Mesopotamia always attached in a special way. In the early cuneiform inscriptions this country appears to be quite distinct from Assyria; it is inhabited by a people called Nairi, who are divided into a vast number of petty tribes, and offer but little resistance to the Assyrian armies. No centralized monarchy is found, but as none of the Assyrian historical inscriptions date earlier than about B.C. 1100, which is some centuries later than the time of Chushan, it is, of course, quite possible that a very different condition of things may have existed in his day. In the weak and divided state of Western Asia at this time, it was easy for a brave and skillful chief to build up rapidly a vast power, which was apt to crumble away almost as quickly. Bunsen, however, calls him merely a Mesopotamian satrap, assuming that he must have been posterior to the Assyrian supremacy (Egypt, 3. 272). Chushan-Rishathaim’s yoke was broken from the neck of the people of Israel at the end of eight years by Othniel, Caleb’s nephew (Jdg 3:10), and nothing more is heard of Mesopotamia as an aggressive power. The rise of the Assyrian empire, about B.C. 1270, would naturally reduce the bordering nations to insignificance (see Rawlinson, Histor. Evidences, p. 300). SEE MESOPOTAMIA.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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 See m 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.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Chushan Rishathaim
(“the Ethiopian of double wickedness”.) (A Cushite or Hamitic element was prominent in the oldest Babylonian race as their vocabulary proves.) The Mesopotamian king who oppressed Israel eight years in the generation succeeding Joshua (Jdg 3:8). About 1402 B.C. he was king of the Syrian country about Haran, the region between the Euphrates and the Khabour, held by the Nairi, divided into petty tribes, as Assyria had not at this time extended her dominion to the Euphrates. Cuneiform inscriptions two centuries later confirm this; in 1270 B.C. the Assyrian empire rose. Othniel delivered Israel from him. Chushan Rishathaim, a chieftain, probably had established a temporary dominion over the petty tribes of Mesopotamia, which ceased long before Assyria marched there.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Chushan-Rishathaim
ku-shan-rish-a-thaim. See CUSHAN-RISHATHAIM.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Chushan-rishathaim
ChushanRishathaim, a king of Mesopotamia, by whom the Israelites were oppressed for eight years (B.C. 1394 to B.C. 1402), until delivered by Othniel (Jdg 3:8-10).
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Chushan-Rishathaim
H3573
King of Mesopotamia.
Jdg 3:8-10
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Chushan-Rishathaim
Chushan-Rishathaim (k’skan-rsh’a-th’im), most wicked Cushite, or otherwise, lord of the land of the two rivers. A king of Mesopotamia, of whom nothing more is known than that he subjugated Israel shortly after the time of Joshua. His power was broken after eight years by Othniel, the son of Kenaz. Jdg 3:8-11.