Bible Question: What age was Samuel when he died. |
Bible Answer: According to Jewish chronology, Samuel died around six months before Saul died. One Rabbi I heard said that Samuel died at the age of ninety-eight. (I apologize, but I do not know by what line of reasoning he made this assertion.) An online commentary claimed the same age and added that this would have been 1053 BC. (Again, they did not elaborate on how they had arrived at these figures.) In Him, Doc |