Biblical Timelines

[Brother V]

Dear friends, how often do you get confused while reading the Bible (KJV1611) and you wonder when things happened? This happens to me all the time. It's really confusing because the Old Testament is not laid out in a chronological timeline. Some people would tell you that you can leave out "chrono" and it's still not laid out that way either.

So I will try to help you figure out when things happened. (Different timelines will have different dates; Some of the more documented events in history have more exact dates)

Color coding
Judges
Judah Kings
Israel (north) Kings
Prophets
Founding of false religions
Significant births

BC

3950 Creation

2067 Isaac was born

2007 Jacob was born

1992 Abraham Died

1944 Isaac Died

1877 Jacob arrives in Egypt

1860 Jacob dies in Egypt

1806 Joesph dies in Egypt

1730 Hebrew bondage begins in Egypt

1548 Hebrew midwives ordered to kill all the males

1525 Moses born

1487 Moses flees Egypt

1447 Exodus Begins

1446 Tabernacle constructed

1407 Moses dies; Joshua conquers Canaan

1400 Canaan conquest completed

1375 Othniel becomes judge

1319 Ehud becomes judge

1240 Deborah and Barak judge

1194 Gideon becomes judge

1167 Eli born

1152 Tola becomes judge

1131 Jair becomes judge

1109 Eli becomes priest

1105 Samuel born

1089 Jephthah becomes judge

1083 Ibzan becomes judge

1071 Elon and Samson become judges

1069 Samuel begins to minister

1066 Abdon becomes judge

1043 Saul becomes king

1011 Saul and Jonathan killed, David become king of Judah

1004 David becomes king of all Israel

971 Solomon becomes king

966 Solomon begins to build the Temple in Jerusalem

931 Rehoboam king of north and south

931 Jeroboam rebels, sets up northern kingdom

913 Abijam becomes king of Judah

911 Asa becomes king of Judah

910 Nadab becomes king of Israel

909 Bausha becomes king of Israel

886 Elah becomes king of Israel; Zimri also becomes king of Israel

885 Tibni becomes king of Israel

880 Omri becomes king of Israel

874 Ahab becomes king of Israel.

873 Jehoshaphat becomes king of Judah

858 Elijah begins to prophesy

853 Ahaziah becomes king of Israel

853 Jehoram becomes king of Judah

852 Joram becomes king of Israel

852 Elisha begins to prophesy

841 Jehu becomes king of Israel

841 Ahaziah becomes king of Judah

841 Athaliah seizes the throne of Judah

835 Joash becomes king of Judah

830 Joel prophecies

814 Jehoahaz becomes king of Israel

798 Jehoash becomes king of Israel

796 Amaziah becomes king of Judah

790 Uzziah becomes co-regent of Judah

783 Jonah begins his ministry

782 Jeroboam II becomes king of Israel

776 Olympic games begin in Greece

767 Uzziah becomes full king of Judah

764 Amos begins to prophesy

755 Hosea begins to prophesy

753 Rome founded; Zechariah becomes king of Israel

752 Shallum becomes king of Israel

752 Menahem becomes king of Israel

745 Tiglath-pileser III becomes king of Assyria

742 Pekahiah becomes king of Israel

740 Pekah becomes king of Israel

739 Uzziah dies; Isaiah begins to prophesy

739 Jotham becomes king of Judah

736 Micah begins to prophesy

735 Ahaz becomes king of Judah

732 Hoshea becomes king of Israel

727 Shalmaneser IV becomes king of Assyria

722 Sargon II becomes king of Assyria, Samaria falls

722 The ten tribes of Israel go into captivity

715 Hezekiah becomes king of Judah

705 Sennacherib becomes king of Assyria

701 Judah invaded by the Assyrians

686 Manasseh becomes king of Judah

681 Esarhaddon becomes king of Assyria

669 Ashurbanipal becomes king of Assyria

648 Nahum predicts the fall of Nineveh

642 Amon becomes king of Judah

640 Josiah becomes king of Judah

634 Zephaniah begins to prophesy

627 Jeremiah begins to prophesy

626 Nabopolasser becomes king of Babylon

619 Habakkuk begins to prophesy

612 Nineveh falls

609 Neco II becomes pharaoh of Egypt

609 Jehoahaz becomes king of Judah

609 Jehoiakim becomes king of Judah

605 Nebuchadnezzar becomes king of Babylon

605 The Babylonians invade Judah; Daniel begins to prophesy

597 Jehoachin becomes king of Judah

597 Zedekiah becomes king of Judah

593 Ezekiel begins to prophesy

586 The Babylonians destroy Jerusalem and the Temple

586 The Jews deported to Babylon

586 Gedaliah becomes governor of Jerusalem

563 Buddhism founded by Siddhartha

553 Belshazzar becomes regent in Babylon

550 Cyrus becomes king of Persia

550 Confucius begins to teach

539 Babylon falls to the Medes and Persians

539 Darius the Mede rules in Babylon

538 Zerubbabel and Joshua lead a small party back to Palestine

536 The Temple started in Jerusalem

530 Cambyses becomes king of Persia

521 Smerdis becomes king of Persia

521 Darius I Hystapses becomes king of Persia

520 Zechariah begins to prophesy

520 Haggai begins to prophesy

520 Construction of the Jerusalem Temple resumed

516 The Temple completed

509 The Roman Republic founded

486 Xerxes becomes king of Persia

478 Esther becomes queen of Persia

478 Esther saves the Jews of the empire from extermination

473 The Feast of Purim started

469 Socrates born

464 Artaxerxes Longimanus becomes king of Persia

458 Ezra takes a small contingent of Jews back to Palestine

445 Nehemiah takes a small contingent of Jews back to Palestine

443 Nehemiah and Ezra read the Scriptures to the Jews

443 The beginnings of the Midrash; the Sopherim (Scribes) flourish

436 Malachi begins to prophesy

423 Darius II becomes king of Persia

404 Artaxerxes II becomes king of Persia

400 The Midrash begins to develop

359 Artaxerxes III becomes king of Persia

359 Philip becomes king of Macedonia

342 Epicurius teaches his philosophy

336 Darius III Codomannus becomes king of Persia

336 Alexander the Great becomes king of Greece

335 Aristotle teaches at Athens

333 The Battle of Issus fought; Alexander defeats the Persians

331 Alexander seizes Babylon

330 Darius III of Persia slain

323 Alexander dies

320 Ptolemy I seizes Palestine

300 Rome becomes a major world power in the western Mediterranean

274 Hinduism codified in India

20 Herod begins to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple

4 THE BIRTH OF JESUS

Remember, these dates aren't exact. This list will be updated. Just try to keep in mind when things happened and who they happened with, and you will also be able to think about other things that happened in the world around those times.

YIC
V

[Brother V]

Re: Biblical Timelines

In doing some more research, I created a new timeline for the patriarchs.

October 23, 4004 BC- Day 1.
October 29, 4004 BC- Adam was made -Day 6
3874 BC- Seth born ( Gen 5:3; Adam + 130)
3769 BC- Enos born (Gen 5:6; Seth + 105)
3679BC- Cainan born (Gen 5:9; Enos + 90)
3609- Mahalaleel born (Gen 5:12; Cainan +70)
3544- Jared born (Gen 5:15; Mahalaleel +65)
3382- Enoch born (Gen 5:18; Jared + 162)
3317- Methuselah born (Gen 5:22; Enoch + 65)
3130- Lamech born (Gen 5:25; Methuselah +187)
3074 BC - Adam dies (Gen 5:5 930)
3017- Enoch taken away by god (Gen 5:23; 365)
2962- Seth dies (Gen 5:8; 912)
2948- Noah born (Gen 5:28; Lamech + 182)
2864- Enos dies (Gen 5:11; 905)
2769- Cainan dies (Gen 5:14; 910)
2714- Mahaleel dies (Gen 5:17; 895)
2448- Shem, Ham, Japheth born (Gen 5:32; Noah + 500)
2353- Lamech dies (Gen 5:31; 777)
2348- Methuselah dies (Gen 5:27; 969)
2348- Flood begins (Gen 7:6; Noah was 600)
2346- Arphaxad born (Gen 11:10; Shem +102; flood +2)
2311-Salah born (Gen 11:11; Shem +35)
2281- Eber born (Gen 11:14; Salah + 30)
2247- Peleg born (Gen 11:16; Eber + 34)
2217- Reu born (Gen 11:18; Peleg +30)
2185- Serug born (Gen 11:20; Reu +32)
2155- Nahor born (Gen 11:22; Serug +30)
2126- Terah born (Gen 11:24; Nahor +29)
2056- Abram, Nahor, Haran born (Gen 11:26; Terah +60)
2008- Peleg dies (Gen 11:19; Reu born +209)
2007- Nahor dies (Gen 11:25; Terah born +119
1998- Noah dies (wow, I never realized that Noah and Abram were contemporaries) (Gen 9:29; 950)
1981- Abram leaves Haran (Gen 12:4; Abraham was 75)
(somewhere in here, was the famine that caused Abram to go to Egypt)
1978- Reu dies (Gen 11:21; Serug born + 207)
1970- Ishmael born (Gen 16:16; Abraham 86)
1957- Abraham circumcises everyone (Gen 17:1; Abram 99)
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed day after Sarah gets pregnant prophecy (Gen 18/19)
1956- Isaac born (Gen 21:5; Abraham 100)
1921- Terah dies (Gen 11:32; 205)
1916- Isaac marries Rebekah (Gen 25:20; Isaac was 40)
1908- Arphaxad dies (Gen 11:13; Salah born + 403)
1896- Jacob & Esau born (Gen 25:26; Isaac was 60)
1881- Abraham dies (Gen 25:7; Abraham 175)
1878- Salah dies (Gen 11:15; Eber born + 403)
1846- Shem dies (Gen 11:11; Arphaxad born +500)
1833- Ishmael dies (Gen 25:17; Ishmael 137)
1817- Eber dies (Gen 11:17; Peleg born +430)
1807 - Serug dies (Gen 11:23; Nahor born +200)
1776- Isaac dies (Gen 35:28; Isaac 180)


This will be added to later.

YIC
V