followed by 80 years when the "land had rest". 20 Comments Dee Vale May 28, 2023 Seeking the date of Joshua's death curious where that is found in scripture-- Nissan 26? After Tola came Jair who judged Jordan. sent me. And if Jonathan was a grown man so soon after his fathers accession, Saul must have been between 75 and 80, at the very least, when he was killed in battle. Joshua The Assemblies at Gilgal and Shiloh.After the division of most of the land had been completed, the Israelites assembled at Gilgal, where the Passover had first been observed and the tabernacle had been set up. Similar synchronisms are given for the other kings. b. the book of Judges. (4:3) Oppressed 20 yrs. How many years after Moses did Jesus come? 62 years old at Sinai in 1446 BC. This number was likely rounded off to the hundred above the actual total rather than to less than the exact interval. second burning of Hazor by Deborah too early at 1230 BC because they fail to Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, the other in a train like string. 3:7. If, then, Samsons 20 years are part of the 40, the total is reduced from 410 plus x to 390 plus x. oppression of the Philistines continued right through to the death of Samson. great things: Joseph, Samuel was a leader from infancy. 1304-1286 BC. 62 years old compared to 80 is only a small difference of 18 years. 1230 BC. (Rise and Fall, Bryant Wood, The 70th week of Daniel is another name for the 7 year tribulation. Sinai. cit., pp. the following reasons: Some feel that since Joshua was described as "ol. The purpose of this article is to set forth reasons for the choice of the dates given in that outline. They were not concerned with how long that ruler had been on the throne when the event occurred, but they used the regnal-year number as the regular designation for that calendar year. Deborah burns Hazor in 1184 BC: Deborah burned Hazor in 1184 BC. 40-34 = 6). was born in 999 BC when David was 41 years old. train with four cars in a row. Conquest A fragmentary manuscript from a Dead Sea cave, containing parts of 1 Samuel 1 and 2, gives Elis age as 90, not at his death (as in LXX), but at some time after Samuel was placed in his care (see on chapter 2:22). those who misdate the death of Joshua to 1384 BC (29 years too early), put the Hor, where Aaron died and where they mourned for him 30 days (Numbers 20:22-29). 20-year judgeship inside the 40 years of Philistine oppression. must deny the inspiration of the scriptures. a. According to Judges 11:26-28, Jephthah lived 300 years after Israel Joshua, also spelled Josue, Hebrew Yehoshua ("Yahweh is deliverance"), the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses, who conquered Canaan and distributed its lands to the 12 tribes. ii. All this makes it utterly impossible for the Bible believer to teach the None of this is impossible, but it would seem to be so unusual as to lend weight to one of two views: (1) that the figure 40 does not refer to the exact length of the personal reign of Saul, or (2) that he was quite young at the time of his accession and that the battle of Michmash must have come considerably later than the second year of his reign. Why would God give more responsibility to a younger man? That in both kingdoms coregencies between father and son were rather frequent occurrences, but that no interregna are indicated in the two Hebrew kingdoms. Each date for the beginning point (the death of Solomon). age 15 so it may have been that same year. Some discarded the Biblical accession synchronisms and tried to keep the figures for the lengths of the reigns; others did the opposite. Like Unit 2, there is no way to reduce 48 years of Unit 3 (Ecclesiastes 11:912:1). leaders within their tribal clan and were likely older men. no way to shorten this time by overlapping periods of oppression and the Ammonite oppression when he defeated them. Abimelech's youth servant: Then he (Abimelech) called quickly to the young [naar] man, his armor bearer, and donkeys. (Judges 19:3), j. The extra six months (2 Samuel 5:4, 5) offer no problem. Psa. 3. Did the 15th year of Amaziah in Judah exactly coincide with the Israelite year in which Jeroboam II came to the throne? periods of oppression and completed the liberation the year the oppression It incorporates the basic principles and hypotheses used by both of them and agrees with most of Thieles dates, but it follows Horns chronology more closely in the one period on which they do not agree, that is, in the proposed solution of the problem of harmonizing certain apparently discrepant synchronisms connected with the reign of Hezekiah. Temple For When can use Jephthah's statement in Judges 11:26, that he lived 300 with Purah your servant [lit: youth, naar] BC forward and basically ignore Samson. of the book of Judges solved. Paul had just referred to two other time periods: (1) Gods deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, when about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness, and (2) another period of about the space of four hundred and fifty years (verses 18, 20; italics supplied). years old when Moses the servant of the Lord Caleb was 85 years old in the 7th and last year of the confirmation of the statement in 1 Kings 6:1 that the exodus happened 480 years Some make Joshua as old as 62 years of age at Sinai have Therefore, we match the 40 years of rest of Gideon Finally they invaded the territory of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim west of the Jordan (chapter 10:8, 9). c. and became his personal servant [sharath]; and he made him overseer over his burned Hazor, the. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. The formal period of the Judges is from 1350 - Scripture gives a sequential narrative of one judge after to the setting up and the establishment of the millennial reign of Yeshua /Jesus on the earth.The ending of the 69th week is when Daniel prophecied that Yeshua /Jesus would be crucified. It was after all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel, that the children of Israel did evil and forsook the God of their fathers, so that the Lord delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and then raised up judges who repeatedly delivered them and sought to bring them back to the worship of God (see chapter 2:10-16). a. time is 489 years from Othniel to the death of Samuel in 1014 BC. What did David achieve? b. was chosen by Moses to fight Amalek at (Exodus 17:9) Rephidim. days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who 3. times of war and peace are in different regions of Israel, we consider army 30 km south at Mt Gilead happened the same year. (2 Samuel 5:4-5). This has been understood as evidence that Solomons regnal years were reckoned from the autumn, presumably Tishri 1. It matters not if Abimelech was approved by God or not, the fact remains Bronze age ends in 1177 BC. David became king in Hebron + 40 years of David + 4 years of Solomon = 198 The key in using the period of the Judges to determine the exodus date Therefore, the 8 year oppression of Aram-naharaim (3:8) began in Introduction The book of Judges presents an interesting puzzle in the in the chronology of Israel. your corpses will fall in this wilderness, Sampon's youth servant: Then Samson said to the boy [naar] who was holding his hand, Let From 1204-1184 BC, there were 20 years of oppression until Deborah kills How do we explain the fact that Joshua e. to death of Joshua: 50 years (1406-1356 BC), 3. to the period Israel remained faithful after Joshua died. Using Jephthahs 300 years to confirmation of an exodus in 1446 and It is obvious then that you cannot shorten the 95 years because each But the 40 years of the Philistines oppression seem to have been partly contemporaneous with the 18 years of servitude to the Ammonites, for it is said that the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon (chapter 10:7). and 33 in Jerusalem. north by the Canaanites at the same time the Midianites were crossing the 1384 BC. (Dating of Hazors destruction in Joshua 11, Douglas took. Joshua was older than Caleb in 1393 BC. well documented event is recorded in the wall reliefs of pharaoh Ramesses III dating of these reigns will be deferred until after the explanation of the four working hypotheses on which this dating is basedhypotheses derived from experimental alignment of the reigns of the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel. This means Samuel lived 88 years between 1102 -1014 BC. 1. There simply is II as the Pharaoh: i. died and Shiloh was destroyed by the Philistines. same year. before the 4th year of Solomon. years (8:28). was with him. (1 Samuel 20:35), l. g. Steven Rudd, the difference is only 7 years! Joshua the son of Nun. (Numbers 14:29-30). older than 105 years old, this would mean that we need only add 10 years b. old and upward, who have grumbled against Me. Eglon and Ruth in 1284 BC: Ehud killed Eglon in 1284 BC, the same Solomon as "young and inexperienced" just before he became king: 1 Samuel was also confirmed to be a prophet at age 8 and Eli died that Judge to death of Samuel: 336 years (1350-1014 restrain them. (Numbers 11:28). use "Indivisible unit 3": Jephthah - Abdon (48 years), from 1100 12:40)words of Deuter-Time of theIsraelites in Ten Command-onomy. But the conquest of Amorite territory before crossing the river occurred in the second half of the 40th year. Modern vestiges in the West are the phrase eight days, meaning a week in some European languages; the Catholic term octave of a festival, meaning the day coming one week after the holy day; the musical intervals, such as octave, third, fifth, etc. Then Moses died, probably about the beginning of the 12th month, for after mourning for him 30 days (Deuteronomy 34:5-8) the Israelites proceeded on their way, in the first days of the first month, and crossed the Jordan on the 10th of the month (Joshua 4:19). I can't believe that one of them would have gotten something like that wrong. Actually, when their true nature is understood, they are found to be amazingly consistent. Mosaic-Hieroglyphic-Hebrew into Paleo-Hebrew script. youth" used 200 times in the OT. Their solution, is to make this relative to the age of Moses rather than 4. Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad [naar] where he is. (Genesis 21:17), c. David is an important figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. "sharath": Hebrew word meaning a "servant" used 97 times Joshua 1:1, 11:15, Judges 2:8. Apostasy was appallingly rapid (see on Judges 18:30 for the conditions in the lifetime of a possible grandson of Moses), but it must have taken at least several decades for the younger contemporaries of Joshua to die out. "First Gideon and the land was undisturbed 40 c. Remember also your Creator in the days of your Samuel was the last judge who died in 1014 BC, which was four years before Num 11:28 is not comparative with Moses' age and clearly indicate that (Eli died in have been no need to make the specific exception here. Since the deliverance from Egypt took place in the middle of the 1st month in the 1st year of the Exodus reckoning, that departure can be placed 479 years earlier than the 1st month of the 480th year, that is, in the spring of 1445 B.C. As has been pointed out, the essential chronological data are given for each king, generally in the account of the beginning of his reign; and the data are of two kinds: (1) the accession synchronism that dates the beginning of the reign in a certain year of the ruler of the other Hebrew kingdom (Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; 1 Kings 22:51), and. Also, on this basis, Jonathans only son, Mephibosheth (or Merib-baal; 1 Chronicles 8:34; 9:40), who was 5 years old at the time of the battle in which Saul and his sons were killed (2 Samuel 4:4; cf. e. The Chronology of Judges Master Table: 1. Eglon, king of Moab and the story of Benjamin's sodomy of Judges 19-21. 2. We know that the "300 Since it is clear that this mode of counting was the common practice in Bible times, and widespread in many countries, it is useless to try to understand this period as three full 24-hour days, according to the modern Western habit of counting. really make no difference in calculating the overall Chronology of the Judges. Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 9 ISRAEL: FROM JOSHUA TO NEHEMIAH. Since Deborah and Gideon judged at the same time, then the "old and advanced in years". The Merneptah stele fits perfectly with high Reference has been made to the indefiniteness of our information on the relation of the beginning of the monarchy to the time of Samuel and the earlier judges. The account is so abbreviated that we do not have all the facts concerning the relationship between the various judges and the intervening periods of oppression. However, the Potiphar's youth servant: So Joseph (aged 17-18) found favor in his sight How did the writer count the 15 years that Amaziah lived after the death of Joash? e. a. a. be possessed. (Joshua 13:1), c. E. Indivisible Unit 3: Jephthah to Abdon: 1118 - 1070 (48 years), F. Indivisible Unit 4: Samson: 1118 - 1078 (40 years). unnecessary. Being refused passage, they conquered Sihons land from the Arnon to the Jabbok. Samson or the oppression that preceded him.). Joshua the son of Nun, the servant [sharath] of of King David. 8. This is how it has always been applied historically in the church. Samuel was born in 1102 BC and brought to Eli by Hanna after the boy was David was 15 when he killed Goliath. Chronology Built Upon Synchronisms.The chronological data in the books of Kings are given mostly in two types of time statements aligning the reigns of the two neighboring kingdoms of Judah and Israel, that is, (1) accession synchronisms, or statements dating the accession of one king in a certain regnal year of the contemporary ruler in the other nation; and (2) the lengths of the reigns. died, Canaanites: This seems all the more likely when we notice that these judges were widely scattered geographically: Othniel was from Judah, Deborah from Ephraim, Barak from Naphtali, Ehud from Benjamin, Gideon from Manasseh, Tola from Issachar, Jair and Jephthah from Gilead, east of the Jordan, Ibzan and Elon from Zebulum, Abdon from Ephraim, and Samson from Dan. the Amalekites. But this is not constructing a chronology based on the Bible data; it is a revision of the Bible records according to each individuals theory. Jephthah in Judges 11:26 was 250 years. "younger" at 62 than Moses who was 80. 4). went up to the top of the hill. (Exodus 17:9-10). c. still a youth [naar], Go up now, look toward the sea. So he went up and looked and said, There is low chronology). servant. survived Joshua, and had known all the deeds of the Lord which He had different armies 30 km apart the same year. years of peace in 1184 BC. Regardless of which scheme of chronology is preferred for the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the B.C. Some set the death of Joshua at 1384 BC and a date of 1378 BC for the oppression of still as strong today as I was in the day Moses In the accession-year system (upper), after the end of the year in which one king dies and the next ascends the throne, the first New Years Day of the new reign ushers in the year 1 of the new king. This method is also sometimes called postdating, since the beginning of what was called the first year was postdated, or postponed, until the first day of the next calendar year following the new kings coming to the throne. country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash. the youngest possible man available, since this would mean he would rule the The Reign of Saul Variously Interpreted.The only information given in the Bible as to the length of Sauls rule (unless 1 Samuel 13:1 is so regarded) is the remark of the apostle Paul, made in an impromptu sermon at Antioch: And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years (Acts 13:21). : Hebrew word meaning an "infant, child, lad, Solomon describes himself when he became king: "I Shiloh was burned. were fully subdued. David described Yet these two men have come nearer to doing so than any other scholar. In order to survey briefly the differences between these two methods of regnal reckoning, let us return to the hypothetical King A, who dies in his 35th year, and is succeeded by King B. Thus it would seem that the first part of the book of 1 Samuel covers a period contemporary with the last part of the book of Judges, presumably chapters 10-16. 40 + 38 = 78 Years old when the Conquest The 20 years of Samson fell within the 40 years of Philistine oppression, for he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years (Judges 15:20). was 98 years old when he died (1 Sam 4:15) and he judged Israel 40 years (1 Sam after Ehud died, Canaanites: There is no indication as to whether these time statements involve the accession-year or non-accession-year reckoning. Accession-Year Method of Reckoning Reigns.If King A died during his 35th year, and was succeeded by King B, all documents written in the first part of the year, up to As death, would have been dated in the such and such day and month of the 35th year of King A, but during the rest of that year they would be dated in the name of his successor, King B, and the first New Years Day in the new reign would usher in a new regnal year of King B. years (12:9). 1 Samuel 16-20. is because Israel remained faithful until the elders who were alive in Ehud judged Israel for 98 years between 1302-1204 BC. Joshua past 110 years of age and subtract the effect that senility and interpreted according to his own dream. (Genesis 41:12), d. was he moral mentor and adviser of David from the time he was anointed at age a. ); if by fall-to-fall years, it would include half of the 46th and half of the 47th; therefore this occasion could have come in either 1400 or 1399. on whether Shiloh was actually burned by the Philistines. The period of time from the death of Joshua to the time of This means we include his It adds an extra year for each reign, for it is the equivalent of inclusive reckoning, numbering both the first and the last year of every reign, when actually each kings first year is only the unexpired part of the last year of his predecessor. sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him In other words, you cannot overlap a times of war Either of these two explanations would allow Saul and Jonathan to be much younger, thus eliminating the apparent difficulties in their ages. The Judges and the 480 Years.With such overlaps as are here indicated, it is entirely possible that the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, the conquest of Canaan, the period of the elders that outlived Joshua, the subsequent apostasy, the various judgeships, some of them contemporaneous, including the judgeship of Samuel, and the reigns of Saul and David could have occurred within the space of 480 years, as indicated in 1 Kings 6:1. It is the inspired word of God! c. Who said you cant make sense of the Chronology in the He had Ptolemys Canon, but departed from it where he preferred the dates of the Greek historians of the classical period. shifting the entire Chronology of the Judges 29 years earlier than it should When Moses returned to the There is Scriptural evidence that Solomon counted the years of his reign from the autumn, and that Judah continued the practice. iii. Joshua leads the people c. 1250 BC-c. 1025 BC [citation needed] Biblical Judges lead the people. in Jerusalem included: a. building his Most of the basic chronological principles of regnal reckoning used in these hypotheses have been used for decades and employed in various combinations by different writers. the same year in 1184 BC. to Gilead: Starts in Jezreel Valley then Transjordan. The real question is why did God/Moses chose Joshua over Caleb to be his ascended the throne since God likes to use the round numbers of 30 and 40 so die. The discovery of the Assyrian limmu (eponym) lists resulted in a division of opinion. The author as did Deborah who judged 40 years. Barnea, 2 years later, to be excepted from the 20 years and older will die 85-45 years = 40 years. Deborahs battle at Mt Tabor and Gideons before God spoke to him at night and revealed that Eli and his sons would soon easy to see how their date for the burning of Hazor by Deborah in 1230 BC is a after the death of Moses. Petrovich, JETS 51/3, p494, 2008 AD). Since we are told that Jephthah lived in 1100 BC, we will than it should be. "older" leader, like the others probably were, he would get Similarly Luke speaks of circumcision on the eighth day or when eight days were accomplished (Luke 1:59; 2:21). Older Chronologies Employ Interregna.Older chronologists have preferred to employ interregna; by assuming gaps in the shorter regnal line they have lengthened it to match the longer one. two servants [lit: youths, naar] were c. youth" used 200 times in the OT. Years, Exodus (4:3) Oppressed 20 yrs. Gideon's battle started in the valley of Jezreel, then the time Jephthah made this statement and this is what we have done. c. We can (1014-1010 BC), 40 + 50 + 6 + 336 + 4 + 40 + 4 = 480 years = 1 Kings 6:1, Maps of Judges, Timeline of Judges Joshua dies c. 1394 JOSHUA dies, aged 110, and is buried at Timnath-serah in Ephraim (Joshua 24:30). Both Deborah and Gideon completed their liberation After Tola came Jair who judged Then : (5:31) Mt. Consequently, opinions differ as to which solution is more likely. In the non-accession-year system (lower), however, the year of death and accession is followed by year 2 of the new king, and so on. The beginning of the period of Israels oppression in 1204 BC one year So, a total of 40 years, not 60 are to counted because comes to two towns in, So we can prove that Deborah and Gideon Judged at the same years), Bronze age ends in 1177 BC when the After Gideon came Abimelech who judged for 3 years (9:22). For these and other reasons that might be given, it is not possible to prepare a complete and exact scheme of Bible chronology. : (8:28) Gideons army at Mt. a. 1025-1018 BC . Eli and Samuel are rather simple to synchronize. 13:1. a. Later Chronology Not Affected.In either case, any difference of opinion on the duration of Sauls reign has no effect on the date of the end of that reign or on the dates of the reigns of David and the later kings. "youth". That in the kingdom of Judah the years of a kings reign were reckoned as beginning in the autumn (presumably by the civil calendar year beginning with Tishri 1), while at the same time in the kingdom of Israel the regnal years were reckoned by a spring-to-spring calendar (probably beginning with Nisan 1). it just pushes back the year Eli died (and the destruction of Shiloh) earlier. Central Let's now examine 1 Samuel 17:33. The lists are identical between Abraham and David, but differ radically from that point. This outline is intended only as an approximation of what may have happened, but it demonstrates that the figures in the book of Judges can be reasonably interpreted by means of overlaps that agree with the historical situation and with the interpretation of the 480 years as the exact length of the period from the Exodus to and including the 4th year of Solomon. Seven Years of Plenty Begin: Genesis 41:47: 1875 BC: Famine Begins: Genesis 41:53: 1875 BC: Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt: . were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her old. Caleb spent 38 years at Kadesh before crossing the Zered Wadi which triggered g. 1 Kings 6:1 says the actual period was 480 years. Now, if Saul reigned only 20 years, then David, who was 30 when he came to the throne (2 Samuel 5:4), would have been 10 years old at Sauls accession. In proving the exodus of 1446 BC, we can use the Jephthah to Solomon how one unit can be overlapped with another in order to reduce the time from Jordan in 1406 BC: Judges 11:26. They misdate Deborahs burning of Hazor to the beginning of the Since there is no period called accession year before year 1, this is called the non-accession-year method, or antedating. Deborahs final liberation act of burning Hazor was at the beginning of the 40 chronology" is because there is no way to suggest the time is Now, of these divisions, only the last three can be ascertained with any definiteness, at about 83 years. miracles in Egypt" would be at least 5 years old in 1446 BC when In the story of the capture of Ai, the second city (after Jericho) in Canaan to have been conquered, Joshua 8-28 declares, "Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap of ruins, as it is to this day." Excavators have uncovered signs of habitation at Ai between 1200 and 1050 B.C.E. BC. in the OT. Were Elijah's youth servant: He The 12 spies that were sent from Kadesh Barnea were All we know is that Shamgar followed Ehud, A woman slew him. So the young [naar] In exchange, the Israelites spared her and her family when they conquered and destroyed Jericho (Jsh 6:24-25). 1. When you splice the different verses together you get this meaning: Sisera, defeats Jabin and burns Hazor in 1184 BC. direct effect of shifting the entire Chronology of the Judges 29 years earlier
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