Ehud judges

• Ehud (raised up by the LORD as a deliverer for…)

• Start — Judges 3:15. The year Ehud (raised up by the LORD as a deliverer for…) began to judge is the year Eglon's oppression ended = 2659
• End — Judges 3:30. The year Ehud (raised up by the LORD as a deliverer for…) ceased to judge Israel is the year he began to judge (2669) + the years he judged (80) = 2749

START:*HYPOTHESIS: The year Ehud began to judge is the year Eglon's oppression ended. [Shulman date p83] [Ussher date p53] END:*HYPOTHESIS: Ehud judged Israel throughout the 80-year period the land was undisturbed. [Shulman date p83] [Ussher date p53]

Years are anno hominis — counted from Creation as year 1 — which is the frame the source computes in. The arithmetic behind each boundary is given above rather than assumed.