Old Testament Timeline
Poetical Books
Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of
Solomon
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
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Ezra
Nehemiah
Divided
Kingdom
Rebellion &
Captivity
Exile
Temple
Walls
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Historical Books
Genesis
Exodus
Numbers
Joshua
Judges
1 Samuel
Beginnings
Deliverance
Wandering
Conquest
Cycles
United
Egypt
Mt. Sinai
Cycles of:
Exodus
ca. 1446 B.C.
Wilderness
Plains of
Moab
Conquest
and
settlement
of the
Promised
Land
Story
of two
generations
ca. 1406
to
1399 B.C.
Kingdom
Prophetical Books
Creation
Gen. 1-2
Fall
Gen. 3
Flood
Gen. 6-9
Nations
Gen. 11
Patriarchs
Gen. 12-50
Abraham
2166-1991
Isaac
2066-1886
Jacob
2006-1859
12 Sons
Wilderness
Mt. Sinai
Moses the
deliverer
and
Law-giver
1526 -1406
The Law
Moral
Civil
Ceremonial
Sin
Discipline
Repentance
Deliverance
by Judges
The cycle is
repeated
ca. 1350
to
1031 B.C.
Samuel is
the last of
the judges
and the
first of the
prophets.
ca. 1105
to
1030 B.C.
King Saul,
the first of
Israel’s
Kings
ca. 1051
to
1011 B.C.
Reign of
King David
ca. 1011
to
971 B.C.
In Hebron
1011
to
1004 B.C.
Over all
Israel
1004
to
971 B.C.
Capture of
Jerusalem
ca. 1004
B.C.
Final days
of King
David
Reign of
King
Solomon
971-931
B.C.
Divided
Kingdom
931 B.C.
Israel in
the north
and
Judah in
the south
Ministry
of the
prophet
Elijah
To Israel:
Hosea
Amos
To Judah:
Habakkuk
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Joel
Micah
Zephaniah
To Assyria:
Jonah
Nahum
To Edom:
Obadiah
Ministry of the
prophet Elisha
Exile of Israel
to Assyria in
722 B.C.
(adapted from Max E. Anders, 30 Days to Understanding the Bible, p. 9; Bruce Wilkinson & Kenneth Boa, Talk Thru the Bible)
Ezekiel
Daniel
Exiled in
Babylon
and Persia
Babylonian
sieges of
Jerusalem
and exiles
of Judah to
Babylon:
605 B.C.
597 B.C.
586 B.C.
In 586 B.C.
the Temple
was
destroyed.
Captives
Nehemiah
first
came to
returned to
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
in 445 B.C.
under
and
Sheshbazzar remained
in 537 B.C.
until 433
B.C.
The
Temple
The walls
was
were
completed
finished in
in 516 B.C.
52 days.
Ezra
came to
Jerusalem
in 458 B.C.
Nehemiah
returned ca.
430 B.C.