Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
The Philistines and Ammon Oppress Israel
Oppression · 1206–1188 BC
What the Bible Says
- “eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan” Judges 10:8
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1206 BC
- “The Israelites, for saking the true God”
- Ended 1188 BC
- “Jephtha the Gileadite, being called by the men of Gilead”
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
