Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
No King in Israel
Event · 1413 BC
The Years
- The Year 1413 BC
- “When as in the times of Anarchie or mis-rule, which followed after the decease of Joshua and the Elders”
“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). Ussher puts Micah’s idols and the war with Benjamin, told in the last five chapters of Judges, after the death of Joshua and the elders that outlived him (Judges 2:7), before Chushanrishathaim.
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.
