Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Jabin of Canaan Oppresses Israel
Oppression · 1305–1285 BC
What the Bible Says
- “twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel” Judges 4:3
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1305 BC
- “The Israelites, after the death of Ehud”
- Ended 1285 BC
- “Debora, the wife of Lapidoth”
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.
