Timeline of the Bible · The Wilderness & the Judges
Israel in the Wilderness
Event · 1491–1451 BC
What the Bible Says
- “the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness” Joshua 5:6
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- Began 1491 BC
- “being the compleat terme of 430 years, from the first pilgrimage of their ancestors”
- Ended 1451 BC
- “went up out of the river Jordan, into the promised land of Canaan”
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.
