Timeline of the Bible · The Flood to Abram
Sarah
Life · 1986–1859 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old” Genesis 23:1
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Born 1986 BC
- “Sarai, who was also called Iscah”
- Died 1859 BC
- “Sarah being 127 years of age, died in Hebron”
Ussher takes her for Iscah, the daughter of Haran (Genesis 11:29). She was ten years younger than Abraham (Genesis 17:17).
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.
