Jephthah was already very old when he was selected as the chief judge. Moses chose him as the chief judge because of this fact, so that he could choose more suitable candidates in the future.
But Jephthah also made contributions during his career as a great judge in recent years. He repelled the attack of the Ammonites and became a hero recorded in the history of Israel.
The Ammonites, like the Moabites, were descendants of Abraham's nephew Lot. Their ancestors, Moab and Ammon, were Lot's two daughters and their sons who slept with him one after another. Because the parents were evil, the offspring born were not good at all, and their descendants were also evil, so the Israelites did not have a good relationship with them. ,
They lived on the east side of the Jordan River, with the southern and northern borders connected to the city of Rabbah. They encountered the Jordan River and fought with the Canaanites many times, but they never occupied the land west of the Jordan River. When the Israelites were conquering the land of Canaan from the wilderness, the Ammonites refused the Israelites access to their land, and together with the Moabites, they hired Balaam to curse them.
And now, they didn't know where they got the oracle, and they began to attack the Israelites who had settled in the land of Canaan. Their attack ultimately failed, and the Israelites drove them back.
But Jephthah, the great judge of Israel, also paid a price for this. Because of his mistakes, his daughter had to remain celibate for the rest of her life and was not allowed to be close to any man.
As punishment for his foolishness, Jephthah resigned as chief judge and handed it over to the powerful Samson.
Before Samson was born, his mother made a vow to the angel of the Lord to raise the child like a Nazarite who had long since converted to Yahweh. He must not drink alcohol, eat anything unclean, or shave his head during his lifetime. As long as he keeps these commandments, Yahweh's blessings will always be with him.
The young and powerful Samson became the Great Master, but what he faced was the attack of the remnants of Daxia. These remnants of Bactria, guided by Adros, began to attack the Israelites.
Before the remnants of Bactria came over, there were sporadic Phrygians from the sea who came here to attack, but they were repelled by the Israelites led by Samson.
But these remnants of Daxia were not so easy to deal with. They pressed forward step by step, oppressing the Israelites until they could hardly breathe. Finally, they even pressed the border with a large army, forcing the Israelites to tie up Samson, the chief judge, and send him to where they were.
In order to avoid the fate of being massacred, the Israelites had no choice but to hand over Samson. Samson used a trick and simply followed the wishes of the Daxia people and let them tie him up.
What surprised the Israelites was that after this mysterious group of Bactrian people from the sea kidnapped Samson, they showed off their power in the Israelite territory, and then walked away directly.
They came suddenly and left suddenly. Except for Samson, the chief judge, they seemed to take nothing with them, but they left nothing behind.
No, they left something behind and left the Israelites with great shame. The Israelites have been enslaved, massacred, and framed, but they have never been ignored like this.
Such a scene filled all the Israelites with grief, anger and shame, including Samuel, Israel's new chief judge, and Moses, the first god among the Israelites.
In anger, Moses once committed suicide alone among the people of Daxia, but there, he met his old friend Sisyphus.
In his early years, this man who had protected him from Egypt to the land of Midian was the first to let him know that humans can also become gods.
Even when he was in the land of Midian, he often debated with Sisyphus. Many times he could not argue with Sisyphus. Angels often came to teach him at night so that he would not fall behind in speaking.
Even his eldest son, Geshun, who was also alienated from him, was a disciple of Sisyphus. It was Sisyphus's teachings to his eldest son that caused Geshun, like his mother, to lose his due belief and worship of gods and become a heretic who believed in superstitious power.
"What, Moses, do you want to come to argue with me again? Let me tell you, I don't want to argue with you anymore. You can decide whether you win or lose."
Sisyphus had no choice. There were so many gods, but none of them wanted to take action. The Moses in front of him was assigned by Athena to deal with it.
"Sisyphus, I'm not here to argue with you, but the people you protected from the sea kidnapped the leader of our Israelites. I came here this time to take him back."
After hearing what Moses said, Sisyphus shook his head: "Impossible. This is the decision of Yahweh and our Lord, the Lord of the Stars. The Israelites deserve to be humiliated. The leader warded off disasters for all the Israelites."
"The Israelites have been humiliated, so why don't you release their leader?"
To Moses, it was a great shame and humiliation for these Bactrian remnants to come and leave in the land of the Israelites. Now he even said that Samson prevented disaster for all the Israelites.
"It is not up to you to decide whether you will be humiliated or not. The decision is in our hands. We felt it was necessary to capture the Israelite leaders, so we captured them. If we want to retreat, we cannot do so for the time being."
Seeing Sisyphus's tough attitude, Moses had no choice but to choose the path he least wanted to take and take action. It turns out that he was justified in taking this path last, and he was no match for Sisyphus.
If Sisyphus hadn't cared about the weak friendship he had and hadn't dealt harshly with him, Moses might not have been able to safely leave the place where the remnants of Bactria lived.
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As for the new Israelite chief judge Samuel, after he took office, he began to restore production that had almost stagnated due to the previous years of war, making the Israelites rich again.
The Israelis do not have much talent in planting, but they are extremely good at business. At this time, Samuel sent people to visit the Pharaoh of Egypt to re-establish contact with Egypt so that the Israelite caravans could appear on the land of Egypt.
Later, he thought about ordering Israeli merchants to go to various parts of Babylon during the war to transport goods and earn some wealth during the war. But his method was extremely risky, because the ethnic groups they had defeated were still spying on them outside the land of Israel.
No one knows when these groups will launch a new attack on the Israelites and plunder their property.
In order to prevent this, during the period when Samuel was in charge of Israel, he continued to increase the connection between the twelve tribes and continued to train the combined army of the twelve tribes. He wanted to make the Israelites into a whole.
Of course, what is more important is that he constantly taught the Israelites to worship Yahweh, because Yahweh is the only God of the Israelites and the God worshiped by their ancestors. No other god is as powerful as Yahweh, protecting Israel at all times.
Everything Samuel did had laid a good foundation for the Israelites to establish a unified country. What they lacked was actually a king.
A true king, a king who can lead the Israelites to the peak of their race and compete with other countries for the right to speak.
Because the Israelites kept begging Samuel to choose a king for them, Samuel listened to Yahweh's intention and anointed Saul, a descendant of the tribe of Benjamin, as king among the candidates from the tribes.
Saul had a strong appearance and was tall, but he was humble at heart. When he heard that Samuel wanted to make him king, he quickly refused. When he returned home, his uncle asked what Samuel had said to him. Samuel never mentioned that he had been anointed king and went home to continue his work of plowing the fields and driving cattle.
At this time, Samuel had gathered the Israelites to Mizpah and formally installed Saul as their leader in front of everyone. When everything was ready, everyone looked for Saul, but he hid in the utensils and was not eager to obtain this superior wealth.
Therefore, when he was officially elected as queen, even though some people were dissatisfied and openly challenged him, he didn't mind and ignored them. At that time, the central government of Israel had not yet been formed, and he did not need much power or status. So he returned to his hometown and continued to plow the fields and drive cattle, living an ordinary life. His character was extremely approachable, humble and decent.
At this time, the Ammonites invaded the territory, and the oppressed people in the north thought that since Israel had appointed Saul as king, they should get up and ask the king to help them.
When Saul heard the people crying, he showed his due sense of responsibility and organizational skills, and mobilized 330,000 soldiers to defeat the Ammonites in one fell swoop and became a hero in Israel.
After the victory, some people settled the score and proposed that those who thought Saul was not qualified to be a leader should be sentenced to death. But Saul was broad-minded and opposed this proposal. After this incident, the people of the country realized that a large-scale central organization should be established, and they officially supported Saul as king, and the nation of Israel was established.
When Israel was founded, Adros was no longer in Yahweh's Garden of Eden, and even Athena and the others had already brought the Bactrian people back to Chaos and joined the remnants of Troy.
These were all things that Adros expected, and he didn't pay much attention to them. At this time, he came to the area ruled by the Babylonian god as a guest.
It was not the kingdom of Assyria, but the kingdom of Babylon, the kingdom that Marduk assigned to the Triad of Stars and Pluto. Adros didn't know why these masters asked him to come over, but he went over anyway.
In any case, these Babylonian rulers still have some possible cooperative positions with him because of their relationship with the Venus god Isda.
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