Event
Gideon's Three Hundred Defeat Midian
Gideon with 300 men routs Midian; Oreb and Zeeb, Zebah and Zalmunna are slain; "the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon" (Judg 6:11–8:28).
Sort year1251 BC
Tier 2 · CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher–Jones baseline)
Tier 2: CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher-Jones baseline): 1251 BC (no CFAH anchor point for this event). 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-1 Table 1 Ussher–Jones baseline | 1251 BC (Gideon defeats Oreb and Zeeb of Midian and Amalek) Precision: year |
1251 BC | Griffith & White, "Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 1: Problem, Data, and Methodology," ARJ 15 (2022): 377–390, section "Our Assumptions (Declared Biases)", Table 1 "Biblically derived dates from Ussher and Jones" (opens in a new tab) CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher-Jones biblical baseline adopted by CFAH); not a triangulated anchor point. Sets sort year |
| Ussher-Jones | "1251 BC GIDEON'S 300 WIN"; GIDEON "40 YRS" 1258 BC to 1218 BC Precision: year |
1251 BC | Jones, Chart No. 4 "Judges to the First 3 Kings" (© 1993 Floyd Jones; chart text revised "As of 2007"), timeline band (opens in a new tab) Gideon's 40 years are counted from 1258 BC, the start of the Midianite 7 years. |
| Ussher | 2759d AM, 1245 BC (Gideon called and victorious; land at rest 40 years) Precision: year |
1245 BC AM 2759 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §356 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Differs from sort year by 6 yrs |
| Jordan secondary | "2773 - Beginning of Gideon's 40-year judgeship (Jud. 8:28)." Precision: year |
AM 2773–2813 | 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 | "2747 - End of Midianite oppression, beginning of Gideon's 40-year judgeship (Jud. 8:28)." Precision: year |
AM 2747–2787 | 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 5:2: "Gideon delivered Israel in 2747, however, in time for the sabbath of 2748." |
| Jordan (compilation) secondary | 2773 AM 6th Judge: Gideon judges for 40 years (8:28) Precision: year |
AM 2773 | 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 2773. |
| Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) | "forty years in the days of Gideon" Precision: unknown |
— | Judg 8:28 (opens in a new tab) |
Disagreements & open questions
- Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1251 BC (CFAH-1 Table 1, Ussher-Jones); 1245 BC (Ussher).
- Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2747 (Jordan); AM 2759 (Ussher); AM 2773 (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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Related
Free sources
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — Judg.6.11-Judg.8.28 public-domain
- Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 1: Problem, Data, and Methodology, (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- Chart No. 4: Judges to the First 3 Kings (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.