Old Testament Timeline

  • Period: 3300 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Early Bronze Age

  • Period: 2100 BCE to 1925 BCE

    Abram/Abraham

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1550 BCE

    Middle Bronze Age

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1786 BCE

    Egyptian Middle Kingdom

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 539 BCE

    Babylonian Empire

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 605 BCE

    Assyrian Empire

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Late Bronze Age

  • Period: 1452 BCE to 1152 BCE

    Book of Judges

  • 1440 BCE

    Exodus

  • 1300 BCE

    Ruth

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 900 BCE

    Iron Age I

  • Period: 1050 BCE to 1010 BCE

    Reign of Saul

  • Period: 1010 BCE to 970 BCE

    Reign of David

  • Period: 970 BCE to 931 BCE

    Reign of Solomon

  • Period: 924 BCE to 722 BCE

    Divided Kingdom

  • Period: 900 BCE to 600 BCE

    Iron Age II

  • Period: 792 BCE to 740 BCE

    Uzziah

  • 750 BCE

    Amos

  • Period: 740 BCE to 689 BCE

    Isaiah

  • 722 BCE

    Fall of Israel

  • Period: 716 BCE to 686 BCE

    Hezekiah

  • Period: 700 BCE to 330 BCE

    Persian Empire

  • Period: 663 BCE to 650 BCE

    Nahum

  • Period: 640 BCE to 609 BCE

    Josiah

  • Period: 627 BCE to 586 BCE

    Jeremiah

  • 605 BCE

    Fall of Judah

  • Period: 605 BCE to 520 BCE

    Daniel

  • Period: 604 BCE to 562 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar

  • Period: 600 BCE to 330 BCE

    Iron Age III

  • 597 BCE

    Babylonian Exile

  • Period: 597 BCE to 571 BCE

    Ezekiel

  • 539 BCE

    Edict of Cyrus

  • 520 BCE

    Haggai

  • 458 BCE

    Ezra

  • Period: 450 BCE to 432 BCE

    Nehemiah