Person
Eli
High priest at Shiloh who judged Israel forty years; died aged 98 on hearing that the Ark was taken (1 Sam 4:15–18).
Sort year1220 BC
Tier 3 · Ussher–Jones (Floyd Nolen Jones)
Tier 3: Ussher-Jones (F. N. Jones): 1220 BC (no higher-tier year available). Jordan (secondary display) never sets the sort.
Description
Added with the judges-period records from James B. Jordan's chronology (secondary display).
Scripture
Family
- Father
- Not recorded
Scripture facts
- Lifespan
- 98 years
Birth
| Chronology | Date as stated | Year (BC / AM) | Citation & note |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFAH | Not yet established | — | — pending CFAH reference |
| Ussher-Jones | "ELI BORN 1220 BC" (becomes priest 1190 BC; high priest 1162 BC) Precision: year |
1220 BC | Jones, Chart No. 4 "Judges to the First 3 Kings" (© 1993 Floyd Jones; chart text revised "As of 2007"), Eli life-line (opens in a new tab) Sets sort year |
| Ussher | 2790d AM, 1214 BC ("Eli, the priest was born, for he died at the age of 98 years ... in the year of the world 2888") Precision: year |
1214 BC AM 2790 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §365 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Differs from sort year by 6 yrs |
| Jordan secondary | Not yet established | — | — Jordan gives no birth year for Eli; he dates only the start of Eli's 40-year judgeship in the South: "2841 - Beginning of Eli's 40-year judgeship in the South (1 Sam. 4:18)" (From Creation to Solomon, 2001, p. 52) and "2815" in BC 3:8 (1991). Not converted into a birth year. |
Disagreements & open questions
- Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1220 BC (Ussher-Jones); 1214 BC (Ussher).
Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.
Death
| Chronology | Date as stated | Year (BC / AM) | Citation & note |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFAH | Not yet established | — | — pending CFAH reference |
| Ussher-Jones | "around November or December of the previous year (1122 BC)", aged 98 Precision: year |
1122 BC | Jones, Chronology of the Old Testament (15th ed., 2002), ch. V "Chart Four", p. 87 (opens in a new tab) |
| Ussher | 2888d AM, 1116 BC Precision: year |
1116 BC AM 2888 |
Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §386 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) |
| Jordan secondary | "2881 - Death of Eli, beginning of Samuel's judgeship at Tabernacle ..." Precision: year |
AM 2881 | 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. Judgeship begun 2841 (p. 52), so 40 years to 2881. |
| Jordan secondary | "2855 - Death of Eli ..." Precision: year |
AM 2855 | 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). Judgeship begun 2815 ("2815 - Beginning of Eli's 40-year judgeship in the South (1 Sam. 4:18)"). |
| Jordan (compilation) secondary | Battle of Aphek, Eli dies. 2881 AM Precision: year |
AM 2881 | 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 2881. |
Disagreements & open questions
- Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1122 BC (Ussher-Jones); 1116 BC (Ussher).
- Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2855 (Jordan); AM 2881 (Jordan, Jordan (compilation)); AM 2888 (Ussher).
Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.
Events
Related
Free sources
- The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — 1Sam.4.15-1Sam.4.18 public-domain
- Chart No. 4: Judges to the First 3 Kings (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
- Chronology of the Old Testament: A Return to the Basics (15th ed.) (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.