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Deborah and Barak Defeat Sisera

Deborah the prophetess and Barak defeat Sisera at the Kishon; Jael kills Sisera; "the land had rest forty years" (Judg 4–5).

Sort year1298/1258 BC
Tier 3 · Ussher–Jones (Floyd Nolen Jones)

Tier 3: Ussher-Jones (F. N. Jones): 1298 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.

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Chronologies

Dates for Deborah and Barak Defeat Sisera, CFAH first
ChronologyDate as statedYear (BC / AM)Citation & note
CFAH Not yet established — —
pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones DEBORAH & BARAK "40 YRS": 1298 BC to 1258 BC; Jabin's 20 years (1298–1278 BC) inside the 40
Precision: year
 1298/1258 BC Jones, Chart No. 4 "Judges to the First 3 Kings" (© 1993 Floyd Jones; chart text revised "As of 2007"), timeline band
The victory falls at 1278 BC (end of Jabin's bar) on Jones's chart.
Sets sort year
Ussher 2719d AM, 1285 BC (Sisera defeated; land at rest 40 years)
Precision: year
 1285 BC
AM 2719		 Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §351 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription)
Differs from sort year by 13 yrs
Jordan secondary "2726 - Beginning of Barak's 40-year judgeship and peace in the North (Jud. 5:31)."
Precision: year
 AM 2726–2766 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
2001 revision. Jordan's 1991 list (BC 3:8) has an earlier year; see the second Jordan entry. p. 46: "the end of Barak's peace in the North and the end of Ehud's peace in the Center almost certainly came at the same time, in the year 2766."
Jordan secondary "2700 - Death of Jabin, beginning of Barak's 40-year judgeship and peace in the North (Jud. 5:31)."
Precision: year
 AM 2700–2740 Jordan, "Chronology and Kings (II)," Biblical Chronology 3:8 (August 1991), section "The Judges", summary list
1991 scheme, superseded by Jordan himself in 2001 (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2 dates the whole judges sequence 26 years later because he there ends the 300 years of Judg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 5:2: "Jabin was defeated by Barak and Deborah in 2700".
Jordan (compilation) secondary 2726 AM 4th & 5th Judge: Barak and Deborah judged in the North 40 yrs. (5:31)
Precision: year
 AM 2726 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)"
Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 2726.
Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) "the land had rest forty years"
Precision: unknown
 — Judg 5:31

Disagreements & open questions

  • Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1298 BC (Ussher-Jones); 1285 BC (Ussher).
  • Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2700 (Jordan); AM 2719 (Ussher); AM 2726 (Jordan, Jordan (compilation)).

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