OLD TESTAMENT
HISTORY TIME CHART
OLD TESTAMENT
(C. = CIRCA= ABOUT)
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DATES B.C. |
THE
LAND AND THE PEOPLE |
THEIR
LEADERS AND RULERS |
PEOPLE
OF OTHER LANDS |
EVENTS
IN OTHER LANDS |
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c.3000
-2350 |
Palestine 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 |
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c2100
-1700 |
Hebrews leave Ur for Palestine |
Patriarchs Abraham Isaac Jacob |
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Ancient Babylon now great |
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c1700
-1600 |
Hebrews in Egypt |
Joseph |
Hammurabi and Code of Laws |
Tell-el-Amarna letters |
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c1350 |
The Exodus |
Moses |
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Hittites powerful |
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1300 |
Philistines settling in Palestine |
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Book of Job written? |
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Hebrews enter Palestine |
Judges J oshua Deborah Gideon Samson |
Philistines growning strong |
Babylon weakening Book of Ruth written |
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1030 |
Tribes being united |
Samuel |
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Assyrian power beginning |
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1010 |
War against Philistines |
Kings Saul David |
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970 |
1st temple built |
Solomon |
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Phoenicia important |
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DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM |
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936 |
Southern Kingdom |
Northern Kingdom |
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Damascus and Syria |
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JUDAH |
ISREAL |
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Kings Prophets |
Kings Prophets |
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Rehoboam |
Jeroboam |
Shishak invades Judah |
Assyria powerful |
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Omri |
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Moabite stone |
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874 |
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Ahab Elijah |
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841 |
Elisha |
Jehu |
Shalmaneser (853 BC) |
Karkar |
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786 |
Uzziah |
Amos |
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760 |
Ahaz |
Hosea |
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740 |
Isaiah |
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Tiglath-Pileser III |
Damascus falls |
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725 |
Hezekiah |
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721 |
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Fall of Northern
Kingdom |
Sargon captures Samaria |
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Ten Tribes taken to Assyrian captivity - the "Lost Ten Tribes" |
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696 |
Manasseh |
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Sennacherib |
Assyria weakening |
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639 |
Josiah (Law Book found) |
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Fall of Nineveh (Assyria) |
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612 |
Nahum Micah |
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605 |
Zedekiah Jeremiah |
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Fall of Egypt (Carchemish) |
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597 |
First Exiles to Babylon |
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598 |
Fall of Southern Kingdom |
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Nebuchadrezzar |
Chaldean (Babylonian) Empire strong |
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EXILE and DISPERSION Synagogue worship beginning |
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Persian Empire beginning |
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549 |
Ezekiel Daniel |
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Cyrus, King of Persia |
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Judah and the Jews |
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537 |
Return of the Exiles |
PERSIAN RULE |
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Cyrus captures Babylon Cambyses captures
Egypt |
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516 |
2nd temple built |
Ezra Haggai Zechariah |
Darius, King of Persia |
Persian Empire powerful |
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444 |
Walls of Jerusalem rebuilt |
Nehemiah |
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Samaritan "split" |
Malachi |
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397 |
Law "published" in Jerusalem |
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Synagogues established |
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331 |
Written O.T. history of Jews ends |
GREEK RULE |
Alexander the Great |
Greek Empire rising: conquest of Persian
Empire - "Hellenistic Age" begins |
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320 |
Conquered by Ptolemy |
Under Egyptian Rule |
Ptolemy, King of Egypt Seleucus, King of Syria and Asia Minor |
Greek Empire divides into Ptolemaic Empire and
Seleucid Empire Book of Jonah written |
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198 |
Conquered by Antiochus IV |
Under Seleucid Rule |
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Rome rising |
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170 |
Antiochus Epiphanes desecrates Temple |
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167 |
Maccabaean Revolt |
Judas Maccabaeus |
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165 |
Temple rededicated |
Under Hasmonean Rule |
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121 |
Priest-King set up |
John Hyrcanus |
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112 |
Pharisees and Sadducees quarrel |
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Seleucid Empire weeakening |
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63 |
Pompey in Jerusalem |
Under Roman Rule |
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Romana Empire powerful |
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49 |
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Julius Caesar |
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37 |
Herod in Jerusalem |
Herod the Great, ruler under Rome |
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20 |
3rd Temple begun |
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4 |
Death of Herod |
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Augustus Caesar Emperor of Rome |
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4 |
BIRTH OF CHRIST |
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