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Judges 10:2

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And he judged Israel twenty three years, and died,.... He did not take upon him to be king, as Abimelech did, but acted as a judge, in which office he continued twenty three years, and faithfully discharged it, and died in honour:and was buried in Shamir; the place where he executed his office.

It is said , that in the first year of Tola, the son of Puah, Priamus reigned in Troy. Juchasin, fol. 136.

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