Event
Jair Judges Israel (22 years)
Jair the Gileadite judges Israel twenty-two years; his thirty sons ride thirty ass colts and hold thirty cities, Havoth-jair (Judg 10:3–5).
Sort year1192/1170 BC
Tier 3 · Ussher–Jones (Floyd Nolen Jones)
Tier 3: Ussher-Jones (F. N. Jones): 1192 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 | JAIR "22 YRS", 1192 BC to 1170 BC Precision: year |
1192/1170 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) Sets sort year |
| Ussher | 2795a AM, 1210 BC (Tola dies; Jair judges 22 years) Precision: year |
1210 BC AM 2795 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §366 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) §370 (2817a AM, 1188 BC): Jair dies. Differs from sort year by 18 yrs |
| Jordan secondary | "2839 - Beginning of Jair's 22-year judgeship (Jud. 10:3)." Precision: year |
AM 2839 | 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. The 2001 list gives no separate year for Jair's death; 2861 is the start of the joint Philistine/Ammonite oppression. End year not inferred. |
| Jordan secondary | "2813 - Death of Tola, beginning of Jair's 22-year judgeship (Jud. 10:3)." Precision: year |
AM 2813–2835 | 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(II)," Biblical Chronology 3:8 (August 1991), section "The Judges", summary list (opens in a new tab) 1991 scheme, superseded by Jordan himself in 2001 (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2 dates the whole judges sequence 26 years later because he there ends the 300 years of Judg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). "2835 - Death of Jair, beginning of Philistine oppression ..." |
| Jordan (compilation) secondary | 2839 AM 8th Judge: (10:3) Jair judges for 22 yrs Precision: year |
AM 2839 | 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 2839. |
| Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) | 22 years Precision: unknown |
— | Judg 10:3 (opens in a new tab) |
Disagreements & open questions
- Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1210 BC (Ussher); 1192 BC (Ussher-Jones).
- Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2795 (Ussher); AM 2813 (Jordan); AM 2839 (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.10.3-Judg.10.5 public-domain
- 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.