Event
Samuel's Victory at Mizpah (Ebenezer)
Twenty years after the Ark came to Kirjath-jearim, Israel repents at Mizpah and the LORD thunders on the Philistines; Samuel sets up Ebenezer and the Philistines "came no more into the coast of Israel" (1 Sam 7:2–14).
Tier 3: Ussher-Jones (F. N. Jones): 1101 BC (no higher-tier year available). Jordan (secondary display) never sets the sort.
Description
Judges-period record added from James B. Jordan's chronology (secondary display) with Ussher, Jones and, where available, CFAH-1 Table 1 dates for sorting. Jordan treats the judgeships as partly overlapping regional sequences (North / Centre / South) fitted to the 480 years of 1 Kgs 6:1 and the 300 years of Judg 11:26.
Scripture
Chronologies
| Chronology | Date as stated | Year (BC / AM) | Citation & note |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFAH | Not yet established | — | — pending CFAH reference |
| Ussher-Jones | "BC 1101 is established ... as the year of Samson's death and Samuel's signal victory over the Philistines" Precision: year |
1101 BC | Jones, Chronology of the Old Testament (15th ed., 2002), ch. V "Chart Four", p. 86 (opens in a new tab) Chart No. 4: Philistine dominion 1141–1101 BC; Ark at Kirjath-jearim 1121–1101 BC. Sets sort year |
| Ussher | 2908c AM, 1096 BC (after 20 years, Israel gathers at Mizpah and the Philistines are routed) Precision: year |
1096 BC AM 2908 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §390 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Differs from sort year by 5 yrs |
| Jordan secondary | "2901 - Death of Samson, battle of Mizpah, deliverance from Philistine oppression." Precision: year |
AM 2901 | Jordan, From Creation to Solomon (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2, Biblical Horizons, Oct. 2001), ch. 11 "The Era of the Judges and the Reign of Saul", p. 52 (opens in a new tab) 2001 revision. Jordan's 1991 list (BC 3:8) has an earlier year; see the second Jordan entry. |
| Jordan secondary | "2875 - Death of Samson, battle of Mizpah, deliverance from Philistine oppression." Precision: year |
AM 2875 | Jordan, "Chronology and Kings (II)," Biblical Chronology 3:8 (August 1991), section "The Judges", summary list (opens in a new tab) 1991 scheme, superseded by Jordan himself in 2001 (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2 dates the whole judges sequence 26 years later because he there ends the 300 years of Judg 11:26 when Ammon took the villages, AM 2860, not at Jephthah's victory). BC 3:7 (July 1991), "Saul in Context": the battle of Mizpah came "in the year Samuel died [sic: as printed] and right at the time Elon the Zebulunite, the northern judge, also died". |
| Jordan (compilation) secondary | Death of Samson, at 40 yrs old. And the Battle of Mizpah. (16:31, I Sam.7) 2901 AM Precision: year |
AM 2901 | Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 8, chart "Year of the World: From the Judges to King Saul (Chronology from James Jordan)" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 2901. |
| Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) | "twenty years" after the Ark came to Kirjath-jearim Precision: unknown |
— | 1Sam 7:2 (opens in a new tab) |
Disagreements & open questions
- Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1101 BC (Ussher-Jones); 1096 BC (Ussher).
- Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2875 (Jordan); AM 2901 (Jordan, Jordan (compilation)); AM 2908 (Ussher).
Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.
Related
Free sources
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — 1Sam.7.2-1Sam.7.14 public-domain
- Chronology of the Old Testament: A Return to the Basics (15th ed.) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- Chronology and Kings (II) (Biblical Chronology 3:8, August 1991) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- From Creation to Solomon (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- The Annals of the World, Deduced from the Origin of Time (1658 English edition), Part One: 4004–176 BC (opens in a new tab) public-domain
- Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (A.M. chronology charts and A.M./B.C. table) (opens in a new tab) private-copy
Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.