TIME CHART - Glen Acres



OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY TIME CHART

OLD TESTAMENT (c. = circa = around the time)

|DATES |THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE |LEADERS AND RULERS |PEOPLE OF OTHER LANDS |EVENTS IN OTHER LANDS |

|B.C. | | | | |

|c.3000 |Palestine is a highway in the Fertile|Nomadic leaders |Ancient Civilizations in the valleys of the Nile and |

|-2350 |Crescent for movements of people | |Tigris-Euphrates |

| |between Egypt and the Ancient East |Terah | |

|c.2100 |Hebrews leave Ur for Palestine |Patriarchs | |Ancient Babylon now great |

|-1700 | |Abraham | | |

| | |Isaac | | |

| | |Jacob | | |

|c.1700 |Hebrews in Egypt | Joseph |Hammurabi and Code of Laws|Tell-el-Amarna letters |

|-1600 |Philistines settling in Palestine | | |Book of Job written? |

|c.1440 |The Exodus | Moses | |Hittites powerful |

|c.1400 |Hebrews enter Palestine | | | |

| | |Joshua | | |

| | |Judges | | |

| | | |Philistines growning |Babylon weakening |

| | |Deborah Gideon |strong |Book of Ruth written |

| | |Samson | | |

| 1030 |Tribes united | Samuel | |Assyrian power beginning |

| 1010 |War against Philistines |Kings Saul | | |

| | |David | | |

| 970 |1st temple built | | |Phoenicia important |

| | |Solomon | | |

| | | | |

| |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 |Karkar |

| | | | | |(853 BC) | |

| 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 | | | |Fall of Nineveh (Assyria) |

| |(Law found) | | | | |

| 612 | | | | | |

| 606 |Zedekiah |Jeremiah |BABYLON RULE |Nebuchadnezzar |Fall of Egypt domination |

| | | |(Chaldean Empire) | |(battle of Carchemish) |

| 598 |Fall of JUDAH (South Kingdom) | |Daniel in Babylon | |

|597 |First Exiles to Babylon | | | |

| |EXILE and DISPERSION | |Ezekiel in Babylon | |

| |Synagogue worship begins | | | |

| 549 | |PERSIAN RULE |Cyrus, king of Persia |Persian Empire |

|537 |Judah and the Jews | | | Cyrus captures Babylon |

| |Return from Exile | | |Cambyses captures Egypt |

|516 |2nd temple built | |Ezra |Darius, King of Persia | |

| | | |Haggai | | |

| | | |Zechariah | | |

|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 |Greek Empire divides into |

| | | |Seleucus, King of Syria |Ptolemaic Empire and |

| | | |and Asia Minor |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 |BIRTH OF CHRIST | |Augustus Caesar Emperor of| |

|4 |Death of Herod | |Rome | |

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