Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Samson
Judge · 1137–1117 BC
What the Bible Says
- “he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years” Judges 15:20
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1137 BC
- “Whiles Eli the High Priest executing the office of a judge in civill causes, under the Philistins”
- Ended 1117 BC
- “Sampson being betrayed by Dalilah his concubine, and despoiled of the hair of his Nazariteship”
He began to deliver Israel (Judges 13:5) in the days of the Philistines and of Eli.
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.
