Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Eli
Judge · 1157–1117 BC
What the Bible Says
- “he had judged Israel forty years” 1 Samuel 4:18
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1157 BC
- “and after him came Eli, the High Priest”
- Ended 1117 BC
- “he fell off from his chair backward, and brake his neck”
The high priest, who judged Israel while the Philistines ruled it, and died at ninety and eight (1 Samuel 4:15), when the ark was taken.
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.
