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Israel: Under the Judges: Public Affairs Administered Four-Hundred and Fifty Years by the Judges

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Judges 2:16–19 Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them. / Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done. / Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
Acts 13:20 All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.