Timeline of the Bible · The Flood to Abram
Eber
Life · 2281–1817 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber” Genesis 11:14
- “Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years” Genesis 11:17
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
The Years
- Born 2281 BC
- “Heber was born, when Salah his father had lived 30 years”
- Died 1817 BC
- “Heber, the fifth from Noah, died 430 years after the birth of his son Peleg”
The longest-lived of all born after the flood: he outlived Abraham.
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.
