Timeline of the Bible · The Flood to Abram
Arphaxad
Life · 2346–1908 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad” Genesis 11:10
- “begat Arphaxad two years after the flood” Genesis 11:10
- “Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years” Genesis 11:13
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
The Years
- Born 2346 BC
- “Arphaxad, was now born”
- Died 1908 BC
- “Arphaxad the third from Noah, died”
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.
