Timeline of the Bible · The Flood to Abram
Terah
Life · 2126–1921 BC
What the Bible Says
- “Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah” Genesis 11:24
- “the days of Terah were two hundred and five years” Genesis 11:32
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
Family
The Years
- Born 2126 BC
- “Terach or Tharah was born when Nachor his father was 29 years of age. At this time”
- Died 1921 BC
- “and when Terach had fulfilled 205 years, he died in Carran”
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.
