Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Midian Oppresses Israel
Oppression · 1252–1245 BC
What the Bible Says
- “the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years” Judges 6:1
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1252 BC
- “The Israelites sinning again, are delivered into the hands of the Midianites”
- Ended 1245 BC
Ussher’s margin prints no year for Gideon’s deliverance: it is seven years after Midian came (Judges 6:1), and forty before the end of Gideon’s quiet (Judges 8:28).
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.
