Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Ibzan
Judge · 1181–1175 BC
What the Bible Says
- “he judged Israel seven years” Judges 12:9
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1181 BC
- “When Jephtha was dead, and buried in Gilead”
- Ended 1175 BC
- “Ibzan deceasing and being buried at Bethlehem, Elon the Zabulonite succeded him”
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.
