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<p> ("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 ( Judges 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. </p>

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