Verse Judges 3:8. Chushan-rishathaim] Kushan, the wicked or impious; and so the word is rendered by the Chaldee Targum, the Syriac, and the Arabic, wherever it occurs in this chapter.

King of Mesopotamia] King of ארם נהרים Aram naharayim, "Syria of the two rivers; " translated Mesopotamia by the Septuagint and Vulgate.

It was the district situated between the Tigris and Euphrates, called by the Arabian geographers Maverannaher, "the country beyond the river," it is now called Diarbek. Acts 2:9.

Served Chushan - eight years.] He overran their country, and forced them to pay a very heavy tribute.

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