In Palestine – A Sabbath Year for the land.

JOSHUA dies, aged 110, and is buried at Timnath-serah in Ephraim (Jos.24:30).

In Palestine – A Sabbath Year for the land.

God gives Israel into the hands of CUSHAN-RISHATHAIM of Mesopotamia for their stubborn  idolatry (Jud.3:8).
In Palestine – A Sabbath Year for the land.

In Palestine – A Sabbath Year for the land.

After their repentance the Spirit of God anoints OTHNIEL (CALEB's nephew) to free Israel from CUSHAN's oppression (Jud.3:10).

Part of the tribe of Dan migrates to the north (Jud.17,18).

The moral decay of the tribe of Benjamin to Sodomic levels brings a holy annihilation of almost the whole tribe (Jud.19-21).
The Tabernacle is at Bethel under high priest PHINEAS (Jud.20:18,23,26-28).
Mizpah is Israel's unofficial capital.
In Palestine – A Sabbath Year for the land.

The first Jubilee Year of Israel, in which Hebrew slaves were to be freed, and sold land returned to its previous occupant. (Lev.25).

In Palestine – A Sabbath Year for the land.

The Hittite Empire is dominant in Anatolia and Syria through this period.

God strengthens EGLON of Moab to conquer and oppress Israel.

The Lord moves EHUD to liberate Israel because they repent (Jud.3:15).

See Leviticus 25.

In Palestine – A Sabbath Year for the land.

Canaanite trading ship sinks with +/-10 tons of international cargo at Ulu Burun (off present Anatolian/Turkish coast).

May 12: The great battle of Qadesh (Kadesh) between the Egyptian (RAMSES II) and the Hittite Empires weakens both to leave Palestine free of Egyptian interference.

See Leviticus 25.

Hittite emperor HATTUSILI  III (c.1267-1237 BC), signs a peace agreement with pharaoh RAMSES II, prompted possibly by the growing threat that Assyria posed to Hittite-held lands in northern Syria.

God gives the northern tribes of Israel into the hand of JABIN of Hazor (Jud.4:2).

DEBORAH and BARAK defeat JABIN of Hazor.

See Leviticus 25.

The Hittite Empire collapses.

God gives Israel to the Midianites for their continued evil (Jud.6:1).

GIDEON defeats the Midianites, after Israel's repentance.

'Sea Peoples' attack Egypt and are repulsed by RAMESES III.

See Leviticus 25.

Pharaoh RAMESES V dies of smallpox in Egypt (his mummy bears marks of the disease).

In Iceland – the volcano Hekla erupts blanketing Europe in dust that radically changes the climate helping the collapse of Mycenaean civilization in Greece, and probably affecting the economies of the Near East.

Marriage of BOAZ and Moabitess RUTH, great grand-parents of king DAVID (Ru.4).

See Leviticus 25.

The Tabernacle of God is at Shiloh.
• ELI (descendant of ITHAMAR fourth son of AARON) becomes high priest.

Ark of the Covenant is captured by the Philistines, high priest ELI dies.
• AHITUB (grandson of ELI) becomes High Priest at Shiloh.
The Ark is later returned to Beth-shemesh, and then to Kiriath-jearim (1 Sam.6).

See Leviticus 25.

SAMSON dies in the Philistine temple of Dagon, but his brothers bury him in the tomb of their father (Jud.16:30,31).

Israel repents under SAMUEL the prophet and the Philistines are defeated at the battle of Ebenezer (1Sam.7).
Mizpah is Israel's unofficial capital.
SAMUEL builds an altar to God at Ramah (1Sam.7-10).
• AHIJAH (son of AHITUB) becomes High Priest at Shiloh.

SAUL becomes first king of Israel with his base at Gibeah (modern Tell el Ful).
SAMUEL writes the statutes of the  kingdom (1 Sam.10:24-25;13:1; Ac.13:21), and most probably edits the books of Moses (Pentateuch/Torah).
King SAUL takes the Ark of the Covenant with him in war (1Sam.14:3,18).
Saul's success unites the Hebrews –

the killing of the Philistine hero GOLIATH (descended from the refugee-giants of Kiriat Arba/Hebron) by teenage young DAVID with a slingshot (c.1024 BC/BCE): the stone of a slingshot could travel at 100 metres per second, whereas an arrow from the much later developed medieval longbow only attained a speed of 60 mps (source: Kriwaczek 2010:92).

tabernacle of Israel is at Nob (1 Sam.21), which is between Anathoth (Anata) and Jerusalem (Isa.10:30-32).
• ABIATHAR is high priest (Mark 2:26; AHIMELECH is his son).

See Leviticus 25.

SAUL is defeated by the Philistines; his armour is dedicated to the goddess Astarte (Ashtoreth) at Bet She'an.
His and his sons' bodies are rescued from the city wall of Bet She'an, cremated, and the bones buried by the people of Jabesh-gilead (1 Sam.31:8-13).

DAVID becomes king of Judah in Hebron.

King DAVID unites Israel politically and conquers Jebusite Jerusalem (the city of Melchizedek in Abraham's time, to which young David had taken Goliath's head).
Although God-honouring in terms of the holy covenant and more, DAVID's political kingdom is not racially Jewish for his elite bodyguard are Philistines (Cherethites and Pelethites, see Zeph.2:5) and a leading general in his army is a Hittite (Uriah).
• ZADOK (a Jebusite name, probably via his mother) and ABIATHAR are both high priests of Israel. (2 Kings 20:25).

that King DAVID purchases the site for the temple in Jerusalem from ORNAN the Jebusite (implying that when David had conquered their city there had been no plunder and destruction of the resident Jebusites).
Although denied being builder of Israel's temple because its city Jeru-salem was not at peace (Salem) during his wars, as its name asserts, DAVID is inspired by God to design the Temple and the order of its services to permanently replace the Tabernacle of Moses (1 Chron.28:11-19).
Accordingly, during his reign he accumulates for its construction – c.100 metric tons of pure gold, c.240 metric tons of pure silver, plus large quantities of bronze, iron, wood, and precious stones (1 Chron.29) from his war plunder. (See Sanctuary and Services)

In Jerusalem – DAVID dies, SOLOMON becomes king, age c.20.
• ZADOK becomes sole high priest, restoring ELEAZAR's high priestly line (as God had promised to PHINEAS, see 1410 BC).

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