Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Samuel
Judge · 1117–1095 BC
The Years
- Began 1117 BC
- “he fell off from his chair backward, and brake his neck”
- Ended 1095 BC
- “Saul therefore was first anointed privately, and afterward publickly, and before all the people, made and proclaimed King at Mispa”
"Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life" (1 Samuel 7:15), but here only until Saul was made king (1 Samuel 10:24; 12:1-2).
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.
