The Book of Judges ends with the story of the fraternal war between Benjamin and the other Israelite tribes, following the ravishing of the concubine of a Levite at the hands of the people of Gibeah in Benjamin.
The Bible records two major conflicts between the Israelite tribes and the Canaanites of the cities in Galilee: the battle of the waters of Merom (Josh 11:1–15) and the battle of Deborah (Judg 4 and 5). In both accounts, the leader of the Canaanite league is Jabin, king of Hazor.
Three chapters in the Book of Judges (6–8) are devoted to the career of a hero – Gideon – from the central hills of Ephraim, from the clan of Abiezer, a branch of the tribe of Manasseh.
Attention is focused on Transjordan with the legend of Jephthah (Judg 10:6–12:7), a hero whose life reflects a number of themes from this type of literature, not only in the Levant but in the eastern Mediterranean in general.
The last third of the fourteenth century B.C., during the reign of Tutankhamen, Ay and Horemheb, saw Egypt hard-pressed to maintain her hold on Canaan. The political unrest in Egypt itself was resolved by the time Horemheb's successor, Ramesses I, had founded the nineteenth dynasty (1293 B.C.).
Campaign by Mursili I destroys major Amurrite centers, including Babylon, mid-second millennium B.C.
The deployment of forces for the battle of Megiddo
The first official campaign of Thutmose III
Thutmose III conquers Megiddo
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