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Abimelech makes himself king at Shechem Dated from the sources quoted below
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How we know the date Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 1236 BC (its year of the world 2769 a).
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The sources, word for word “2769. a. Abimelecho, Shecemitarum opera, rege constituto; Jothanus, filiorum Gideonis natu minimus, qui solus fratris manus evaserat, e vertice montis Garizimi de injuria domui paternz illata cum eis expostulat, et parabola proposita ruinam eorum preedicit: deinde oratione peracta, fuga se proripiens, Beeri tutus habitats.”
Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 2769 a · gives 1236 BC Sources