Judges 5:32

5 translations of 93 that include the Old Testament

Douay-Rheims 1899

And the land rested for forty years.

And the land had rest forty years.

And the land had rest forty years.

Poi il paese ebbe riposo quarant'anni.

Quievitque terra per quadraginta annos.

Traditions differ. Each position is shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Traditional: 1050 BC–1000 BC Samuel
Traditionally ascribed to Samuel, writing after the monarchy began.
Critical: 640 BC–550 BC Deuteronomistic historians
Part of the same exilic history, using older tribal material.

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (1050 BC–550 BC).

1600 BC–1046 BC Shang dynasty oracle bones China
The earliest substantial Chinese writing, inscribed on bone and shell for divination.
1200 BC–1000 BC Iron working spreads in the Levant Levant
Iron gradually displaced bronze for tools and weapons across the eastern Mediterranean.
1200 BC–600 BC Zoroaster teaches in Persia Persia
Founder of Zoroastrianism, whose dating is disputed by as much as six centuries. His teaching on a cosmic struggle between good and evil later touched Jewish and Christian thought.
1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
776 BC First recorded Olympiad Greece
The traditional starting point of Greek historical chronology.
753 BC Traditional founding of Rome Rome
The legendary date of Rome's founding, later used as the anchor of the Roman calendar.
745 BC–609 BC Neo-Assyrian empire at its height Mesopotamia
Assyria dominated the Near East, deporting conquered populations as policy, including the northern kingdom of Israel.