Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Deborah and Barak
Judge · 1285–1252 BC
What the Bible Says
- “And the land had rest forty years” Judges 5:31
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1285 BC
- “Debora, the wife of Lapidoth”
- Ended 1252 BC
- “The Israelites sinning again, are delivered into the hands of the Midianites”
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.
