Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Samuel Subdues the Philistines at Mizpeh
Event · 1096 BC
What the Bible Says
- “the time was long; for it was twenty years” 1 Samuel 7:2
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 1096 BC
- “For twenty years together after the Ark came to Kiriath-Jearim, [1 Sam. 7. 2.] the Israelites were grievously oppressed by the Philistines”
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.
