The Bible

  • Creation 4000
    4000 BCE

    Creation 4000

    Gen 1:1
    Adam and Eve
  • The fall
    4000 BCE

    The fall

  • The flood
    3000 BCE

    The flood

    Noah
  • Tower of babel
    2400 BCE

    Tower of babel

  • Period: 2166 BCE to 1991 BCE

    Abraham

  • Abrahamic covenant
    2100 BCE

    Abrahamic covenant

    as numerous as the stars in the sky
  • Period: 2066 BCE to 1886 BCE

    Isaac

  • The sacrafice of Isaac
    2058 BCE

    The sacrafice of Isaac

    God tests Abraham with sacrificing his son Isaac
  • Period: 2006 BCE to 1859 BCE

    Jacob

  • Migration to Egypt
    1876 BCE

    Migration to Egypt

  • Period: 1876 BCE to 1446 BCE

    Time in Egypt

    Slavery in Egypt
  • Period: 1526 BCE to 1406 BCE

    Moses

  • The exodus from Egypt
    1446 BCE

    The exodus from Egypt

    God and Moses lead the people out of Egypt
  • Period: 1446 BCE to 1406 BCE

    The wilderness wanderings

  • The Sinai covenant
    1445 BCE

    The Sinai covenant

  • Spies sent out
    1445 BCE

    Spies sent out

    Joshua and Caleb
  • Tabernacle construction
    1445 BCE

    Tabernacle construction

  • Period: 1445 BCE to 1407 BCE

    Aaron as high priest

  • The Deuteronomic covenant
    1406 BCE

    The Deuteronomic covenant

  • Moses's death
    1406 BCE

    Moses's death

    Moses can't go into the promised land
  • Anointing of Joshua
    1406 BCE

    Anointing of Joshua

  • Period: 1406 BCE to 1399 BCE

    Conquest of Canaan

  • Period: 1406 BCE to 1390 BCE

    Joshua in leadership

  • Period: 1375 BCE to 1050 BCE

    Period of the Judges

  • Period: 1209 BCE to 1169 BCE

    Deborah as judge

  • Period: 1191 BCE to 1144 BCE

    Gideon as judge

  • Ruth marries boaz
    1180 BCE

    Ruth marries boaz

  • Period: 1118 BCE to 1078 BCE

    Samson as judge

  • Period: 1102 BCE to 1014 BCE

    Samuel

  • Period: 1050 BCE to 1010 BCE

    Reign of king Saul

  • David anointed king
    1024 BCE

    David anointed king

    David was anointed during the the reign of Saul
  • Period: 1010 BCE to 970 BCE

    Reign of king David

  • The Davidic covenant
    1000 BCE

    The Davidic covenant

  • Birth of Soloman
    990 BCE

    Birth of Soloman

  • Period: 970 BCE to 931 BCE

    Reign of king Soloman

  • Period: 966 BCE to 959 BCE

    Temple construction

  • Period: 940 BCE to 732 BCE

    Aram/Syria

  • Kingdom split
    931 BCE

    Kingdom split

  • Period: 931 BCE to 913 BCE

    Reign of king Rehoboam

    Judah
  • Period: 931 BCE to 910 BCE

    Reign of king Jeroboam

    Israel
  • Period: 875 BCE to 848 BCE

    Elijah as prophet to Israel

    Ahab was married to Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre and Sidon. Jezebel, with her Tyrian courtiers and a made evil thigs for baal in Samaria. the Israelites accepted Baal as well as Yahweh, putting Yahweh at the level of an earthly god https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elijah-Hebrew-prophet
  • Period: 874 BCE to 853 BCE

    Reign of king Ahab

    Israel
  • Period: 860 BCE to 845 BCE

    Obadiah

  • Period: 860 BCE to 845 BCE

    Obadiah

  • Period: 848 BCE to 797 BCE

    Elisha as prophet to Israel

  • 835 BCE

    Joel

    Judah
  • Period: 793 BCE to 753 BCE

    Jonah

    Other prophet
  • Period: 770 BCE to 760 BCE

    Amos

    Israel
  • Period: 770 BCE to 727 BCE

    Hosea

    Israel
  • Period: 767 BCE to 755 BCE

    Amos as prophet to the north

    dates estimated
  • Period: 745 BCE to 612 BCE

    Assryia

  • Period: 740 BCE to 686 BCE

    Isaiah

    Judah
  • Period: 737 BCE to 700 BCE

    Micah

    Judah
  • Period: 727 BCE to 697 BCE

    Reign of king Hezekiah

    Judah
  • 722 BCE

    Fall of Samaria

  • 722 BCE

    North taken into exile by Assyria

    Amos and Hosea's ministry during this time because they are prophets to the north
  • 701 BCE

    Assryian seige of Jerusalem

  • Period: 697 BCE to 642 BCE

    Reign of king Manesseh

    Judah
  • Period: 689 BCE to 598 BCE

    Habakkuk

  • Period: 640 BCE to 609 BCE

    Zephaniah

  • Period: 640 BCE to 609 BCE

    Reign of king Josiah

    Judah
  • Period: 640 BCE to 609 BCE

    Zephaniah

    judah
  • 630 BCE

    Nahum

  • Period: 627 BCE to 580 BCE

    Jeremiah as prophet to Judah

  • Period: 626 BCE to 539 BCE

    Babylon

  • Period: 605 BCE to 536 BCE

    Daniel as prophet in exile

  • Period: 605 BCE to 536 BCE

    Daniel as prophet in exile

  • Period: 597 BCE to 571 BCE

    Ezekiel as prophet in exile

  • Period: 597 BCE to 571 BCE

    Ezekiel as prophet in exile

  • 586 BCE

    Fall of Jerusalem

  • 586 BCE

    Beginning of exile

  • 586 BCE

    Beginning of exile

  • 539 BCE

    Cyrus conquered Babylon

  • 539 BCE

    Cyrus conquered Babylon

  • 538 BCE

    First return

    (zerubbabel)
  • Period: 536 BCE to 516 BCE

    Temple rebuilding

  • 458 BCE

    Second return

    Ezra
  • 444 BCE

    Third return

  • 425 BCE

    END OF OLD TESTEMENT

  • Period: 331 BCE to 164 BCE

    Greek empire

  • Period: 164 BCE to 63 BCE

    Maccabean Revolt

  • 63 BCE

    Pompey Conquered Jerusalem

  • 63 BCE

    Roman empire

  • Period: 37 BCE to 4 BCE

    Herod the great

  • Period: 27 BCE to 14

    Roman emperor Augustus

  • 4 BCE

    BIRTH OF JESUS

  • Period: 4 BCE to 39

    Herod Antipas

  • Period: 4 to 30

    JESUS

  • Period: 26 to 36

    Roman procurator in Judea Pontius Pilate

  • Period: 27 to 30

    ministry of JESUS

  • 30

    Ascension of JESUS

  • 30

    Death and resurrection

  • 30

    Pentacost

  • Period: 30 to 69

    Ministry of Peter

  • 33

    Stephen stoned

  • 34

    Paul's conversation

  • Period: 34 to 68

    Ministry of Paul

  • 40

    Peter's vision

  • Period: 46 to 48

    Paul's first missionary journey

  • 49

    Jerusalem council

  • Period: 50 to 52

    pauls 2nd missionary journey

  • Period: 50 to 81

    timothy

  • Period: 53 to 57

    pauls 3rd missionary journey

  • Period: 54 to 68

    Roman emperor Nero

  • Period: 60 to 62

    pauls imprisonment in rome

    encourages with joy even though impriosoned
  • 64

    Rome burned

  • Period: 64 to 68

    paul and peter martyred

  • 70

    the fall of jerusalem

  • Period: 81 to 96

    Roman emperor Domitian

  • 97

    John exiled to Patmos

  • 100

    end of the new testement

  • 100

    John's death