Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Othniel
Judge · 1405–1343 BC
What the Bible Says
- “And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel” Judges 3:11
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1405 BC
- “of the Tribe of Juda, being stirred up by God, as a Judge and avenger of his people, defeated Cushan”
- Ended 1343 BC
- “After the decease of Othoniel, the Israelites”
Ussher counts each rest of Judges from the deliverance before it, so the years of each oppression fall within the rest they end: the forty years of Judges 3:11 from the rest Joshua gave (Joshua 11:23).
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.
