Ancient History Timeline

Event

Saul Anointed and Made King

The elders ask Samuel for a king; Saul son of Kish is anointed, defeats Nahash the Ammonite and is made king at Gilgal (1 Sam 8–11); he reigns forty years (Acts 13:21).

Sort year1095/1055 BC
Tier 3 · Ussher–Jones (Floyd Nolen Jones)

Tier 3: Ussher-Jones (F. N. Jones): 1095 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

Dates for Saul Anointed and Made King, CFAH first
ChronologyDate as statedYear (BC / AM)Citation & note
CFAH Not yet established — —
pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones "SAUL KING 1095 BC"; reigns 40 years to 1055 BC (Acts 13:21)
Precision: year
 1095/1055 BC Jones, Chart No. 4 "Judges to the First 3 Kings" (© 1993 Floyd Jones; chart text revised "As of 2007"), timeline band
Jones, 15th ed. (2002), ch. IV p. 53: "975 + 120 = 1095 BC (Saul begins to reign)".
Sets sort year
Ussher 2909c AM, 1095 BC (Saul made king; reigned 40 years, Acts 13:21)
Precision: year
 1095 BC
AM 2909		 Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §391 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription)
Jordan secondary "2909 - Death of Abdon; Samuel appoints sons, rejected; anointing of Saul; accession of Saul. Saul is around 40. Jonathan is around 20." / "2910 - Saul year 1. Samuel is 49."
Precision: year
 AM 2909 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. 49: "Saul was probably about 40 when he began to reign, reigned 40 years, and died at about 80 years of age." p. 45: 300 + 40 + 7 + 4 + 40 + 49 = 440 of the 480 years, "That leaves 40 years" for Saul.
Jordan secondary "2909 - Accession of Saul."
Precision: year
 AM 2909 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1991 scheme, superseded by Jordan himself in 2001 (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2 dates the whole judges sequence 26 years later because he there ends the 300 years of Judg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 (1993): "Saul became Israel's first official king in 2910, right after a sabbath year (2909)." BC 3:7: "34 years until Saul became king at the (adopted) age of one year. Samuel was 74." (1991; 2001 has Samuel about 49).
Jordan (compilation) secondary Judge Abdon dies & King Saul’s Ascension Year 2909 1101 Jud. 12:14 / I Sam.8-10
Precision: year
 1101 BC
AM 2909		 Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 11, chart table "Biblical History According To A.M & B.C. Dates"
Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 2909. The compilation's B.C. year (1101) is AM subtracted from 4010 (its own convention: Creation 4010 B.C.); Jordan's own SBC B.C. figures differ. Display only; never converted or used for sorting.
Differs from sort year by 6 yrs
Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) reigned 40 years
Precision: unknown
 — Acts 13:21; 1Sam 13:1

Disagreements & open questions

  • Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1101 BC (Jordan (compilation)); 1095 BC (Ussher-Jones, Ussher).

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