-
Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE
Early Bronze Age
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2296 BCE
Birth of Terah
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2166 BCE
Birth of Abram
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2091 BCE
Abram’s departure from Haran
-
2081 BCE
Abram’s marriage to Hagar
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2080 BCE
Birth of Ishmael
-
2067 BCE
Reaffirmation of the covenant
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2067 BCE
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
-
2066 BCE
Birth of Isaac
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2029 BCE
Death of Sarah
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2026 BCE
Marriage of Isaac
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2006 BCE
Birth of Jacob and Esau
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Period: 2000 BCE to 1550 BCE
Middle Bronze Age
-
1991 BCE
Death of Abraham
-
1966 BCE
Marriage of Esau
-
1943 BCE
Death of Ishmael
-
1930 BCE
Jacob’s journey to Haran
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1923 BCE
Jacob’s marriages
-
1919 BCE
Birth of Judah
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1916 BCE
End of Jacob’s fourteen-year labor for his wives
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1916 BCE
Birth of Joseph
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1910 BCE
End of Jacob’s stay with Laban
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1910 BCE
Jacob’s arrival at Shechem
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1902 BCE
Rape of Dinah
-
1900 BCE
Marriage of Judah
-
1899 BCE
Selling of Joseph
-
Period: 1897 BCE to 1878 BCE
Sesostris II's reign (12th Dynasty)
-
1889 BCE
Joseph imprisoned
-
1889 BCE
Joseph released
-
1886 BCE
Death of Isaac
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Period: 1879 BCE to 1872 BCE
Egyptian famine
-
1878 BCE
Brothers’ first visit to Egypt
-
Period: 1878 BCE to 1843 BCE
Sesostris III's reign (12th Dynasty)
-
1877 BCE
Judah’s incest with Tamar
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1877 BCE
Brothers’ second visit to Egypt
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1876 BCE
Jacob’s descent to Egypt
-
1859 BCE
Death of Jacob
-
Period: 1842 BCE to 1797 BCE
Ammenemes III's reign (12th Dynasty)
-
1806 BCE
Death of Joseph
-
Period: 1798 BCE to 1790 BCE
Ammenemes IV's reign (12th Dynasty)
-
Period: 1789 BCE to 1786 BCE
Sobekneferu's reign (12th Dynasty)
-
Period: 1570 BCE to 1546 BCE
Amosis' reign (18th Dynasty)
-
Period: 1550 BCE to 1200 BCE
Late Bronze Age
-
Period: 1546 BCE to 1526 BCE
Amenhotep I's reign (18th Dynasty)
-
Period: 1526 BCE to 1512 BCE
Thutmose I's reign (18th Dynasty)
-
Period: 1512 BCE to 1504 BCE
Thutmose II's reign (18th Dynasty)
-
Period: 1504 BCE to 1450 BCE
Thutmose III's reign (18th Dynasty)
-
Period: 1503 BCE to 1483 BCE
Hatshepsut's reign (18th Dynasty)
-
Period: 1450 BCE to 1425 BCE
Amenhotep II's reign (18th Dynasty)
-
1446 BCE
The Exodus
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1406 BCE
Crossing the Jordan
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1366 BCE
Joshua dies
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Period: 1200 BCE to 332 BCE
Iron Age
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Period: 1124 BCE to 1084 BCE
Philistine oppression
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Period: 1120 BCE to 1025 BCE
Samuel
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1104 BCE
Ark captured by Philistines at Battle of Aphek
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1084 BCE
Battle of Mizpah
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Period: 1051 BCE to 1011 BCE
Saul’s reign
EVIL king [I Sam. 9-31, I Chr. 9:35-10:14] -
1041 BCE
David born
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1029 BCE
Samuel anoints David
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Period: 1020 BCE to 1011 BCE
David in exile from Saul
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1011 BCE
David anointed king over Judah in Hebron
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Period: 1011 BCE to 971 BCE
David’s reign
GOOD king [I Sam. 16 – I Kings 2:12, I Chr. 11-29] -
1004 BCE
David anointed king over Israel and the conquest of Jerusalem
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Period: 996 BCE to 993 BCE
The great famine
-
Period: 993 BCE to 990 BCE
The Ammonite wars
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992 BCE
David commits adultery with Bathsheba
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991 BCE
Solomon born
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987 BCE
Amnon rapes Tamar
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985 BCE
Absalom murders Amnon
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Period: 985 BCE to 982 BCE
Absalom in exile
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979 BCE
David builds palace
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977 BCE
David builds a tabernacle and moves the ark to Jerusalem
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976 BCE
Absalom’s rebellion and David’s exile
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975 BCE
David takes a census
-
Period: 973 BCE to 971 BCE
Coregency of David and Solomon
-
Period: 971 BCE to 931 BCE
Solomon’s reign
-
Period: 971 BCE to 931 BCE
Solomon’s reign
GOOD -> EVIL king [I Kings 1-11, I Chr. 22; 28 – II Chr. 9] -
Period: 966 BCE to 959 BCE
Solomon’s temple built
-
Period: 966 BCE to 959 BCE
Solomon’s temple built
-
931 BCE
United Kingdom splits into Divided Kingdom
-
Period: 931 BCE to 913 BCE
Rehoboam’s reign
EVIL king (with a little good) [I Kings 12:1-24; 14:21-31, II Chr. 10-12] -
Period: 931 BCE to 910 BCE
Jeroboam’s reign (1st Dynasty):
EVIL king [I Kings 11:26-14:31, II Chr. 10-11; 13] -
Period: 913 BCE to 911 BCE
Abijah’s reign
EVIL king (half-hearted) [I Kings 15:1-8, II Chr. 13:1-14:1] -
Period: 911 BCE to 612 BCE
The Neo-Assyrian Empire dominates ANE
-
Period: 911 BCE to 870 BCE
Asa’s reign
GOOD king (but started to fall at the end) [I Kings 15:9-24, II Chr. 14-16] -
Period: 910 BCE to 909 BCE
Nadab’s reign (1st Dynasty)
EVIL king [I Kings 15:24-32] -
Period: 909 BCE to 886 BCE
Baasha’s reign (2nd Dynasty)
EVIL king [I Kings 15:27-16:7] -
Period: 886 BCE to 885 BCE
Elah’s reign (2nd Dynasty)
EVIL king [I Kings 16:8-14] -
Period: 885 BCE to 885 BCE
Zimri’s reign (3rd Dynasty)
EVIL king [I Kings 16:9-20] -
Period: 885 BCE to 881 BCE
Tibni’s reign
EVIL? usurper [I Kings 16:21-22] -
Period: 885 BCE to 874 BCE
Omri’s reign (4th Dynasty):
EVIL king [I Kings 16:16-28] -
880 BCE
Israel’s capital moved from Tirzah to Samaria
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Period: 874 BCE to 853 BCE
Ahab’s reign (4th Dynasty)
EVIL king [I Kings 16:29-22:40, II Chr. 18] -
Period: 873 BCE to 848 BCE
Jehoshaphat’s reign
GOOD king (but made alliances with the king of Israel) [I Kings 22:41-50, II Kings 3, II Chr. 17-21:3] -
Period: 860 BCE to 852 BCE
Elijah’s ministry
-
Period: 858 BCE to 824 BCE
Shalmaneser III’s reign
-
855 BCE
Elijah anointed Elisha
-
Period: 853 BCE to 852 BCE
Ahaziah’s reign (4th Dynasty)
EVIL king [I Kings 22:51-53 – II Kings 1:18] -
Period: 852 BCE to 841 BCE
Joram’s reign (4th Dynasty)
EVIL king [II Kings 3; 9:14-29] -
Period: 850 BCE to 795 BCE
Elisha’s ministry
-
Period: 848 BCE to 841 BCE
Jehoram’s reign
EVIL king [II Kings 8:16-24, II Chr. 21:4-20] -
Period: 841 BCE to 841 BCE
Ahaziah’s reign
EVIL king [II Kings 8:25-9:29, II Chr. 22:1-9] -
Period: 841 BCE to 835 BCE
Athaliah’s reign
EVIL queen [II Kings 11, II Chr. 22:10-23:21] -
Period: 841 BCE to 814 BCE
Jehu’s reign (5th Dynasty):
GOOD -> EVIL king [II Kings 9-10] -
Period: 835 BCE to 796 BCE
Joash’s reign
GOOD -> EVIL king [II Kings 11-12, II Chr. 22:10-24:27] -
Period: 823 BCE to 811 BCE
Shamshi-Adad V’s reign
-
Period: 814 BCE to 798 BCE
Jehoahaz’s reign (5th Dynasty)
EVIL king [II Kings 13:1-9] -
Period: 810 BCE to 783 BCE
Adad-nirari III’s reign
-
Period: 810 BCE to 750 BCE
Joel
-
Period: 798 BCE to 782 BCE
Jehoash’s reign (5th Dynasty)
EVIL king [II Kings 13:10-25] -
Period: 796 BCE to 767 BCE
Amaziah’s reign
GOOD king (half-hearted) [II Kings 14:1-20, II Chr. 25] -
Period: 793 BCE to 753 BCE
Jeroboam II’s reign (5th Dynasty)
EVIL king [II Kings 14:23-29] -
Period: 792 BCE to 740 BCE
Azariah/Uzziah’s reign
GOOD king (half-hearted; pride led to downfall) [II Kings 14:21-22; 15:1-7, II Chr. 26] -
Period: 782 BCE to 773 BCE
Shalmaneser IV’s reign
-
Period: 772 BCE to 755 BCE
Aššur-dan III’s reign
-
763 BCE
Assyrian eclipse
-
Period: 760 BCE to 760 BCE
Jonah
-
Period: 760 BCE to 760 BCE
Amos
-
Period: 755 BCE to 710 BCE
Hosea
-
Period: 754 BCE to 727 BCE
Aššur-nirari V’s reign
-
Period: 753 BCE to 753 BCE
Zechariah’s reign (5th Dynasty)
EVIL king [II Kings 15:8-12] -
Period: 752 BCE to 752 BCE
Shallum’s reign (6th Dynasty)
EVIL? king [II Kings 15:10-16] -
Period: 752 BCE to 742 BCE
Menahem’s reign (7th Dynasty)
EVIL king [II Kings 15:14-22] -
Period: 752 BCE to 732 BCE
Pekah’s reign (8th Dynasty)
EVIL king [II Kings 15:27-31] -
Period: 750 BCE to 731 BCE
Jotham’s reign
GOOD king [II Kings 15:32-38, II Chr. 27] -
Period: 745 BCE to 727 BCE
Tiglath-pileser III’s reign
-
Period: 742 BCE to 740 BCE
Pekahiah’s reign (7th Dynasty)
EVIL king [II Kings 15:23-26] -
Period: 739 BCE to 685 BCE
Isaiah
-
Period: 735 BCE to 715 BCE
Ahaz’s reign
EVIL king [II Kings 16, II Chr. 28] -
Period: 735 BCE to 700 BCE
Micah
-
Period: 732 BCE to 722 BCE
Hoshea’s reign (9th Dynasty)
EVIL king (with some good) [II Kings 17] -
Period: 729 BCE to 686 BCE
Hezekiah’s reign
GOOD king [II Kings 18-20, II Chr. 29-32] -
Period: 727 BCE to 722 BCE
Shalmaneser V’s reign
-
722 BCE
The fall of the Samaria and the Northern Kingdom of Israel
-
Period: 722 BCE to 705 BCE
Sargon II’s reign
-
Period: 705 BCE to 681 BCE
Sennacherib’s reign
-
Period: 696 BCE to 642 BCE
Manasseh’s reign
EVIL -> GOOD king (but too late) [II Kings 21:1-18, II Chr. 33:1-20] -
Period: 681 BCE to 669 BCE
Esarhaddon’s reign
-
Period: 668 BCE to 627 BCE
Ashurbanipal’s reign
-
Period: 655 BCE to 655 BCE
Nahum
-
Period: 642 BCE to 640 BCE
Amon’s reign
EVIL king [II Kings 21:19-26, II Chr. 33:21-25] -
Period: 640 BCE to 609 BCE
Josiah’s reign
GOOD king [II Kings 22:1-23:30, II Chr. 34-35] -
630 BCE
Zephaniah
-
Period: 627 BCE to 623 BCE
Ashur-eṭil-ilāni’s reign
-
Period: 627 BCE to 562 BCE
Jeremiah
-
622 BCE
Book of the Law recovered
-
612 BCE
The fall of Nineveh
-
Period: 612 BCE to 539 BCE
The Neo-Babylonian Empire dominates ANE
-
Period: 609 BCE to 609 BCE
Jehoahaz’s reign
EVIL king [II Kings 23:31-35, II Chr. 36:1-4] -
Period: 608 BCE to 598 BCE
Eliakim/Jehoiakim’s reign
EVIL king [II Kings 23:36-24:7, II Chr. 36:4-8] -
607 BCE
Habakkuk
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605 BCE
The fall of Egypt at the Battle of Carchemish
-
605 BCE
Judah’s first exile to Babylon
-
605 BCE
Judah’s first exile to Babylon
-
Period: 605 BCE to 562 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar II’s reign
-
Period: 605 BCE to 536 BCE
Daniel
-
Period: 598 BCE to 597 BCE
Jehoiachin’s reign
EVIL king [II Kings 24:8-17; 25:27-30, II Chr. 36:9-10] -
597 BCE
Judah’s second exile to Babylon
-
597 BCE
Judah’s second exile to Babylon
-
Period: 597 BCE to 586 BCE
Mattaniah/Zedekiah’s reign
EVIL king [II Kings 24:17-25:21, II Chr. 36:11-23] -
Period: 593 BCE to 570 BCE
Ezekiel
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588 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar began a siege against Jerusalem
-
587 BCE
Obadiah
-
586 BCE
The fall of Jerusalem, the destruction of the Temple, and Judah’s third exile to Babylon
-
Period: 562 BCE to 560 BCE
Evil-Merodach’s reign
-
Period: 560 BCE to 556 BCE
Neriglissar’s reign
-
Period: 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Cyrus II’s reign
-
539 BCE
The fall of Babylon
-
539 BCE
Cyrus II entered Babylon in peace
-
Period: 539 BCE to 358 BCE
The Persian Empire dominates ANE
-
538 BCE
The first return from exile under Sheshbazzar/Zerubbabel
-
Period: 530 BCE to 522 BCE
Cambyses II’s reign
-
Period: 522 BCE to 522 BCE
Gaumata’s reign
-
Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE
Darius Hystaspes’s reign
-
520 BCE
Haggai
-
Period: 520 BCE to 518 BCE
Zechariah
-
515 BCE
Zerubbabel’s Temple completed
-
Period: 486 BCE to 465 BCE
Xerxes’s reign
-
Period: 464 BCE to 424 BCE
Artaxerxes I’s reign
-
458 BCE
The second return from exile under Ezra
-
445 BCE
The third return from exile under Nehemiah
-
Period: 433 BCE to 430 BCE
Nehemiah back in Persia
-
430 BCE
Nehemiah begins governing
-
430 BCE
Malachi
-
Period: 423 BCE to 404 BCE
Darius II’s reign
-
Period: 404 BCE to 358 BCE
Artaxerxes II’s reign
-
330 BCE
The fall of the Persian Empire at Persepolis to Alexander the Great