Old Testament Timeline

  • Period: 2167 BCE to 1992 BCE

    Abraham

  • Period: 2025 BCE to 1400 BCE

    Assyrian Empire

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Early Bronze Age

  • Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Middle Bronze Age

  • 1447 BCE

    The Exodus

  • Period: 1375 BCE to 1050 BCE

    Ruth

  • Period: 1280 BCE to 1010 BCE

    Book of Judges

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 500 BCE

    Late Bronze Age

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Iron Age One and Two

  • Period: 1044 BCE to 1004 BCE

    Saul

  • Period: 1011 BCE to 971 BCE

    David

  • Period: 971 BCE to 931 BCE

    Solomon

  • 931 BCE

    Divided Kingdom

  • Period: 791 BCE to 740 BCE

    Uzziah

  • Period: 760 BCE to 750 BCE

    Amos

  • Period: 740 BCE to 685 BCE

    Isiah

  • Period: 729 BCE to 699 BCE

    Hezekiah

  • 722 BCE

    Fall of Judah

  • 722 BCE

    Assyrian Exile

  • 663 BCE

    Nahum

  • Period: 640 BCE to 609 BCE

    Josiah

  • 626 BCE

    Babylonian Empire

  • Period: 626 BCE to 586 BCE

    Jeremiah

  • 612 BCE

    Nineveh Falls

  • Period: 606 BCE to 535 BCE

    Daniel

  • Period: 605 BCE to 652 BCE

    Nebuchadnezer

  • 598 BCE

    Babylonian Exile

  • 597 BCE

    Ezekiel

  • 586 BCE

    Fall of Israel

  • 586 BCE

    Fall of Jerusalem

  • Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE

    Persian Empire

  • 538 BCE

    Edict of Cyrus

  • 520 BCE

    Haggai*

  • Period: 516 BCE to 458 BCE

    Ezra*

  • Period: 500 BCE to 480 BCE

    Persian Wars

  • Period: 445 BCE to 432 BCE

    Nehemiah

  • Period: 250 BCE to 1800 BCE

    Egyptian Middle Kingdom