Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Jephthah
Judge · 1188–1181 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Jephthah judged Israel six years” Judges 12:7
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1188 BC
- “Jephtha the Gileadite, being called by the men of Gilead”
- Ended 1181 BC
- “When Jephtha was dead, and buried in 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.
