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Ehud Kills Eglon and Delivers Israel

The left-handed Benjamite Ehud kills Eglon; "the land had rest fourscore years" (Judg 3:15–30). Shamgar fights the Philistines after him (Judg 3:31).

Sort year1378/1298 BC
Tier 3 · Ussher–Jones (Floyd Nolen Jones)

Tier 3: Ussher-Jones (F. N. Jones): 1378 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 Ehud Kills Eglon and Delivers Israel, CFAH first
ChronologyDate as statedYear (BC / AM)Citation & note
CFAH Not yet established — —
pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones EHUD "80 YRS": 1378 BC to 1298 BC; Eglon's 18 years (1378–1360 BC) are the first part of the 80
Precision: year
 1378/1298 BC Jones, Chart No. 4 "Judges to the First 3 Kings" (© 1993 Floyd Jones; chart text revised "As of 2007"), timeline band
Chart 4 text: "of those 80, the first 18 were under Eglon's control ... 80 – 18 or 62 years of peace follow Ehud's slaying of Eglon". So the deliverance itself falls at 1360 BC on Jones's scheme; the chart prints 1360 BC only as the end of Eglon's bar.
Sets sort year
Ussher 2679b AM, 1325 BC (Ehud kills Eglon; land at rest 40 years "after the former rest")
Precision: year
 1325 BC
AM 2679		 Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §346 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription)
§347 (no separate year): Shamgar kills 600 Philistines.
Differs from sort year by 53 yrs
Jordan secondary "2686 - Beginning of Ehud's 20-year judgeship and his 80-year peace."
Precision: year
 AM 2686–2706 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: "this puts the death of Ehud 60 years before the Midianite oppression in 2766, which was AM 2706. This means Ehud judged for 20 years, beginning in 2686." The 80-year peace runs, in the Centre, to 2766.
Jordan secondary "2660 - Death of Elgon [sic], beginning of Ehud's 20-year judgeship and his 80-year peace."
Precision: year
 AM 2660–2680 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). Text: "this puts the death of Ehud ... which was A.M. 2680. This means Ehud judged for 20 years, beginning in 2660."
Jordan (compilation) secondary 2686 AM 2nd Judge: Ehud’s produced peace that lasted for 80 yrs. (3:30)
Precision: year
 AM 2686 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 2686.
Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) "the land had rest fourscore years"
Precision: unknown
 — Judg 3:30

Disagreements & open questions

  • Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1378 BC (Ussher-Jones); 1325 BC (Ussher).
  • Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2660 (Jordan); AM 2679 (Ussher); AM 2686 (Jordan, Jordan (compilation)).

Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.

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