Ancient History Timeline

Event

Oppression of Cushan-rishathaim (8 years)

Israel serves Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia eight years (Judg 3:8), the first oppression of the judges period.

Sort year1418/1410 BC
Tier 3 · Ussher–Jones (Floyd Nolen Jones)

Tier 3: Ussher-Jones (F. N. Jones): 1418 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 Oppression of Cushan-rishathaim (8 years), CFAH first
ChronologyDate as statedYear (BC / AM)Citation & note
CFAH Not yet established — —
pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones "1418 BC / 2586 AM": 8 years of Cushan-rishathaim, 1418–1410 BC ("THIS BRINGS US TO 1152 + 266 = 1418 BC FOR OTHNIEL")
Precision: year
 1418/1410 BC
AM 2586		 Jones, Chart No. 4 "Judges to the First 3 Kings" (© 1993 Floyd Jones; chart text revised "As of 2007"), timeline band
The 2002 book (15th ed.), ch. V p. 91, fixed "Cushan's dominion over Israel at BC 1400" with a 44-year Joshua-Judges chasm (1444 – 1400); the chart text revised "As of 2007" gives 1418 BC and a 26-year chasm (1444 – 1418). The chart value is used.
Sets sort year
Ussher 2591d AM, 1413 BC ("This was the first calamity of theirs and lasted eight years")
Precision: year
 1413 BC
AM 2591		 Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §341 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription)
Differs from sort year by 5 yrs
Jordan secondary "2620 - Beginning of 8-year oppression of Cushan (Jud. 3:8). Israel had been faithful for the 35 years after the death of Joshua, during the time of the elders who succeeded him."
Precision: year
 AM 2620–2628 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. 51
2001 revision. Jordan's 1991 list (BC 3:8) has an earlier year; see the second Jordan entry. p. 46: "we come to AM 2620, which would be 60 years after the division of the land in 2560."
Jordan secondary "2594 - End of the period of peace during and after Joshua, beginning of 8-year oppression of Cushan (Jud. 3:8)."
Precision: year
 AM 2594–2602 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 (Feb. 1993): "In the year 2594 began the eight-year oppression of Cushan-Rishathaim of Mesopotamia".
Jordan (compilation) secondary 2620 AM 8 year oppression of Cushan begins. (Jud.3:8)
Precision: year
 AM 2620 Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 6, chart "Year of the World: From Joseph’s death to the Judges"
Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 2620.
Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) 8 years
Precision: unknown
 — Judg 3:8

Disagreements & open questions

  • Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1418 BC (Ussher-Jones); 1413 BC (Ussher).
  • Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2586 (Ussher-Jones); AM 2591 (Ussher); AM 2594 (Jordan); AM 2620 (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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