1. I have no doubt at all that this applies to their being settled in the land. The Judges were three hundred and ninety years—rest two hundred and seventy nine, oppressions one hundred and eleven years—Samuel, up to Mizpeh, twelve—402 years; Saul forty, David forty—482, not taking into account overlapping of years of judges or reigns. Samson and the Philistines must not be counted apart, nor Eli; they were in the time of the oppression of the Philistines.