Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Jair
Judge · 1210–1188 BC
What the Bible Says
- “judged Israel twenty and two years” Judges 10:3
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1210 BC
- “When Tola was dead, and buried at Shamir”
- Ended 1188 BC
- “Jephtha the Gileadite, being called by the men of Gilead”
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.
