17. The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it.
18. And for the time of about forty years, he suffered their manners in the wilderness.
19. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
20. And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.