OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY TIME CHART
OLD TESTAMENT (c. = circa = around the time)
DATESB.C. / THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE / LEADERS AND RULERS / PEOPLE OF OTHER LANDS / EVENTS IN OTHER LANDS
c.3000 -2350 / Palestine is a highway in the Fertile Crescent for movements of people between Egypt and the Ancient East / Nomadic leaders
Terah / Ancient Civilizations in the valleys of the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates
c.2100 -1700 / Hebrews leave Ur for Palestine / Patriarchs Abraham
Isaac
Jacob / Ancient Babylon now great
c.1700 -1600 / Hebrews in Egypt
Philistines settling in Palestine / Joseph / Hammurabi and Code of Laws / Tell-el-Amarna letters
Book of Job written?
c.1440 / The Exodus / Moses / Hittites powerful
c.1400 / Hebrews enter Palestine / Joshua
Judges
Deborah Gideon Samson / Philistines growning strong / Babylon weakening
Book of Ruth written
1030 / Tribes united / Samuel / Assyrian power beginning
1010 / War against Philistines / Kings Saul
David
970 / 1st temple built / Solomon / Phoenicia important
DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM
936 / Southern Kingdom / Northern Kingdom / Damascus and Syria
JUDAH / ISREAL
Kings / Prophets / Kings Prophets
Rehoboam / Jeroboam / Shishak invades Judah / Assyrian Empire
Omri / Moabite stone
874 / Ahab / Elijah
841 / Elisha / Jehu / Shalmaneser
(853 BC) / Karkar
786 / Uzziah / Isaiah / Amos
760 / Ahaz / Hosea
740 / Tiglath-Pileser III / Damascus falls
725 / Hezekiah
721 / Micah, Nahum / Fall of Northern Kingdom / Sargon captures Samaria
ASSYRIAN RULE
696 / Manasseh / Sennacherib / Assyria weakening
639 / Josiah
(Law found) / Fall of Nineveh (Assyria)
612
606 / Zedekiah / Jeremiah / BABYLON RULE
(Chaldean Empire) / Nebuchadnezzar / Fall of Egypt domination
(battle of Carchemish)
598
597 / Fall of JUDAH (South Kingdom)
First Exiles to Babylon / Daniel in Babylon
EXILE and DISPERSION
Synagogue worship begins / Ezekiel in Babylon
549 / PERSIAN RULE / Cyrus, king of Persia / Persian Empire
537 / Judah and the Jews
Return from Exile / Cyrus captures Babylon
Cambyses captures Egypt
516 / 2nd temple built / Ezra
Haggai Zechariah / Darius, King of Persia
444 / Walls of Jerusalem rebuilt / Nehemiah
Samaritan "split" / Malachi
397 / Law "published" in Jerusalem
331 / End of written O.T. history of Jews / GREEK RULE / Alexander the Great / Greek Empire
"Hellenistic Age" begins
320 / Conquered by Ptolemy / Under Greek-Egyptian Rule / Ptolemy, King of Egypt
Seleucus, King of Syria and Asia Minor / Greek Empire divides into Ptolemaic Empire and Seleucid Empire
198 / Conquered by Antiochus IV / Under Greek-Seleucid Rule
170 / Antiochus Epiphanes desecrates Temple / Antiochus Epiphanese
167 / Maccabaean Revolt / Judas Maccabaeus
165 / Temple rededicated / Under Hasmonean Rule
121 / Priest-King set up / John Hyrcanus
112 / Pharisees and Sadducees quarrel / Seleucid Empire weakens
63 / Pompey in Jerusalem / ROMAN RULE / Romana Empire
49 / Julius Caesar
37 / Herod in Jerusalem / Herod the Great, ruler under Rome
20 / 3rd Temple begun
4
4 / BIRTH OF CHRIST
Death of Herod / Augustus Caesar Emperor of Rome
p.1 / OT-143