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Battle · The Judgesc. 1096 BC

Samuel's victory at Mizpah; Ebenezer

Range across sources: 1096–1095 BC

True span4004 BC – AD 100
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1 Samuel 7:3–14Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your…
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

SamuelMizpah ›
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How we know the date

Easton's (1897), under “Samuel” gives 1095 BC; Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 1096 BC (its year of the world 2908 c). The sources differ by 1 year; the year shown (1096 BC) is the one this timeline follows through this stretch, from Ussher's Annals (1650).

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

The sources, word for word

“This battle, fought probably about B.C. 1095, put an end to the forty years of Philistine oppression.”

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · SAMUEL · gives 1095 BC

“2908. c. Annis viginti postquam arca fœderis Kiriathjearimis collocata est, Israelitæ a Philistæis graviter oppressi, et Samuelis opera ad Dominum conversi, abjectis omnibus idolis suis, Mizpæ convenerunt: ubi aquam hausisse, id est, lachrymarum rivos ex intimo fonte cordis eduxisse, et Domino dicuntur effudisse; adhibito etiam fortasse, huic resipiscentiæ significandæ, externo effusionis aquæ symbolo, ex 2 Sam. cap. XIV. ver. 14. exponendo: quod de ipsorum tamen resipiscentium baptismo, ex Genes. cap. XXXV. ver. 2. et Exod. cap. XIX. ver. 14. alii malunt accipere.”

Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 2908 c · gives 1096 BC

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