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Birth · The Judges1155 BC

Samson is born

Dated from the sources quoted below

True span4004 BC – AD 100
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Told in

Judges 13:1–25The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

SamsonZorah ›
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How we know the date

Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 1155 BC (its year of the world 2849 c).

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“2849. ce. Samson, Nazarzus, uti angelus predixerat, Zor natus est®.”

Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 2849 c · gives 1155 BC

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