Old Testament Survey Timeline

  • Period: 3300 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Early Bronze Age

  • Period: 3300 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Egyptian Middle Kingdom

  • Period: 2100 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Abraham

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1550 BCE

    Middle Bronze Age

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Late Bronze Age

  • 1446 BCE

    The Exodus

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 930 BCE

    Iron Age 1

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1020 BCE

    Book of Judges

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 1020 BCE

    Ruth

  • Period: 1079 BCE to 1010 BCE

    Saul

  • Period: 1010 BCE to 931 BCE

    Solomon

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 931 BCE

    David

  • 957 BCE

    Kingdom Divided

  • Period: 930 BCE to 539 BCE

    Iron Age 2

  • Period: 900 BCE to 600 BCE

    Assyrian Empire

  • Period: 764 BCE to 739 BCE

    Uzziah

  • Period: 760 BCE to 620 BCE

    Amos

  • Period: 739 BCE to 681 BCE

    Isaiah

  • Period: 730 BCE to 686 BCE

    Hezekiah

  • 722 BCE

    Fall of Isreal

  • Period: 650 BCE to 620 BCE

    Nahum

  • Period: 648 BCE to 609 BCE

    Josiah

  • Period: 627 BCE to 574 BCE

    Jeremiah

  • Period: 620 BCE to 562 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar

  • Period: 605 BCE to 536 BCE

    Daniel

  • Period: 605 BCE to 563 BCE

    Babylonian Empire

  • Period: 605 BCE to 536 BCE

    Babylonian Exile

  • Period: 593 BCE to 559 BCE

    Ezekiel

  • 586 BCE

    Fall of Judah

  • Period: 550 BCE to 334 BCE

    Persian Empire

  • Period: 540 BCE to 505 BCE

    Haggai

  • Period: 539 BCE to 332 BCE

    Iron Age 3

  • 538 BCE

    Edict of Cyrus

  • Period: 537 BCE to 516 BCE

    Ezra

  • Period: 445 BCE to 415 BCE

    Nehemiah