Event
Tola Judges Israel (23 years)
Tola son of Puah of Issachar judges Israel twenty-three years and is buried in Shamir (Judg 10:1–2).
Sort year1215/1192 BC
Tier 3 · Ussher–Jones (Floyd Nolen Jones)
Tier 3: Ussher-Jones (F. N. Jones): 1215 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 | TOLA "23 YRS", 1215 BC to 1192 BC Precision: year |
1215/1192 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 | 2772a AM, 1233 BC (after Abimelech, Tola judges 23 years) Precision: year |
1233 BC AM 2772 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §360 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Differs from sort year by 18 yrs |
| Jordan secondary | "2816 - Beginning of Tola's 23-year judgeship (Jud. 10:1)." Precision: year |
AM 2816–2839 | 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. |
| Jordan secondary | "2790 - End of Abimelech's reign, beginning of Tola's 23-year judgeship (Jud. 10:1)." Precision: year |
AM 2790–2813 | 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(II)," Biblical Chronology 3:8 (August 1991), section "The Judges", summary list (opens in a new tab) 1991 scheme, superseded by Jordan himself in 2001 (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2 dates the whole judges sequence 26 years later because he there ends the 300 years of Judg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). |
| Jordan (compilation) secondary | 2816 AM 7th Judge: (10:2) Tola judges for 23 yrs Precision: year |
AM 2816 | 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 2816. |
| Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) | 23 years Precision: unknown |
— | Judg 10:2 (opens in a new tab) |
Disagreements & open questions
- Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1233 BC (Ussher); 1215 BC (Ussher-Jones).
- Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2772 (Ussher); AM 2790 (Jordan); AM 2816 (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.10.1-Judg.10.2 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.