Timeline of the Bible · The Patriarchs
Ishmael
Life · 1910–1773 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael” Genesis 16:16
- “the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years” Genesis 25:17
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
- His Father
- Abraham
The Years
- Born 1910 BC
- “Hagar, bare unto Abram, Ishmael, when he was 86 years old”
- Died 1773 BC
- “Ishmael, Abrahams son, at the age of 137 years”
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.
