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Richteren 3:8

Vertaling Bijbel, Kanttekeningen SV, [], Toen ontstak de toorn des HEEREN tegen Israel; en Hij [16]verkocht hen in de hand van Cuschan Rischataim, koning van [17]Mesopotamie; en de kinderen Israels dienden Cuschan Rischataim acht jaren.
16. Zie boven, hfdst.2 vs.14.
17. Hebreeuws, Aram-Naharaim; dat is, Syrie der twee rivieren;
alzo wordt Mesopotamie in het Grieks om dezelfde oorzaak genoemd.
Zie Gen.24:10. Onder, vs.10, wordt het alleen Aram, dat is, Syrie,
genoemd.

John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible, [], Jud 3:8 or Aramnaharaim; that is, Syria, between the two rivers, which were Tigris and Euphrates; hence the Greek name of this place is as here called Mesopotamia. Josephus {Antiqu. l. 5. c. 3. sect. 2.} calls him king of Assyria, and gives him the name of Chusarthus; and indeed Chushanrishathaim seems to be his whole name, though the Targum makes Rishathaim to be an epithet, and calls him Cushan, the wicked king of Syria; the word is of the dual number, and signifies two wickednesses; which, according to the mystical exposition of the Jews {T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 105. I.}, refers to two wicked things Syria did to Israel, one by Balaam the Syrian, and the other by this Cushan. Mr. Bedford {Scripture Chronology, p. 507.} thinks it may be rendered,
"Cushan, king of the two wicked kingdoms;''
the Assyrian monarchy being at this time like two kingdoms, Babylon being the metropolis of the one, and Nineveh of the other; but it is question whether the monarchy was as yet in being. Hillerus {Onomastic. p. 154, 155.} makes Cushan to be an Arab Scenite, from Hab 3:7; and Rishathaim to denote disquietudes; and it represents him as a man very turbulent, never quiet and easy, and so it seems he was; for not content with his kingdom on the other side Euphrates, he passed over that, and came into Canaan, to subject that to him, and add it to his dominions. Kimchi says that Rishathaim may be the name of a place, and some conjecture it to be the same with the Rhisina of Ptolemy {Geograph. l. 5. c. 18.}; but it seems rather a part of this king's name, who came and fought against Israel, and the Lord delivered them into his hands