Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Tola
Judge · 1233–1210 BC
What the Bible Says
- “he judged Israel twenty and three years” Judges 10:2
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1233 BC
- “After Abimelech, Tolah, the son of Puar”
- Ended 1210 BC
- “When Tola was dead, and buried at Shamir”
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.
