13th Century BC

B.C.

1300 Abu Simbel (great rock temples) construction begins

1300 Sidon gains fame as a great Phoenician sea port

1298 Battle of Qadash between Egypt and the Hittites (stalemate)

1285 Rameses II makes peace with the Hittites

1285 The Children of Israel turn to idolatry again (Judges 4:1)

1285 Jabin king of Canaan has 900 chariots of iron and oppresses Israel for 20 years (Judges 4:1)

1285 Deborah and Barak judge Israel and defeat the Canaanites at Megiddo (Judges 4)

1285 Sisera is slain by Jael, the wife of Heber (Judges 4)

1275 Shalmaneser I becomes king in Assyria and expands its territory

1245 Israel turns to idolatry (Judges 6:1)

1245 God delivers Israel into the hands of the Midianites (Judges 6:1)

1245 Israel cries out to God (Judges 6:6)

1245 Gideon becomes judge of Israel and delivers Israel from the Midianites (Judges 6-9)

1236 Gideon dies and Israel went "whoring" after the Baal gods (Judges 8:33)

1236 Gideon's son Abimelech kills his 70 brothers to be king in Shechem (Judges 9)

1236 Abimelech was slain by a woman who dropped a millstone on his head (Judges 9)

1206 Israel turns to idolatry (Judges 10:6)

1206 The anger of the Lord was "hot" against Israel (Judges 10:7)

1206 God sells Israel into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites (Judges 10:7)

1206 Israel cries out to God (Judges 10:10)