Salvation History Timeline

Abraham is born

2000 BCE

Amathlaah gives birth to her first son

Abraham and Sarah arrive in Canaan

1925 BCE

God promised Abraham that the land would be his children’s land.

Sarah gives birth to Isaac

1900 BCE

Sarah was finally able to birth a child after years of being barren.

Rebekah gives birth to Jacob and Esau

1836 BCE

Rebekah gives birth to Jacob and Esau not knowing that there would be trouble with inheritance in the future.

Israelites settle in Egypt

1750 BCE

Settled in the town of Goshen, Egypt.

Moses leads the Exodus from Egypt

1290 BCE

Through the Red Sea, and Mount Sinai where he eventually receives the ten commandments.

Joshua invades Canaan with the Israelites

1250 BCE

Joshua takes the role as leader, since Moses is gone. God tells him that no one will be able to defeat the Israelites.

Judges (Deborah, Samson, etc) lead Israelites in Canaan

1200 BCE

Started out with spies going into to Canaan to investigate. Israelites cross the Jordan River. The walls of Jericho fall.

Saul is named the 1st king of Israel

1020 BCE

According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel. It appears that he came from Gibeah.

King David names Jerusalem as the capital

1000 BCE

About 3,000 years ago, King David conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites and established the capital of his kingdom there. The city continued as the capital of the kingdom for 400 years, until its first destruction at the hands of the Babylonians in 586/7 BCE

King Solomon builds the Temple

961 BCE

The temple was elaborate and beautiful. Was known as the temple of the Lord

Kingdom divides into Israel and Judah

922 BCE

When Solomon's successor Rehoboam dealt tactlessly with economic complaints of the northern tribes, in about 930 BCE (there are differences of opinion as to the actual year) the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah split into two kingdoms

Time of the prophet Amos

783 BCE

One of the Twelve Minor Prophets. An older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, Amos was active c. 760–755 BCE during the reign of Jeroboam II (786–746 BCE). He was from the southern Kingdom of Judah but preached in the northern Kingdom of Israel

Assyrians conquer Israel

721 BCE

In 722 BCE, nearly ten to twenty years after the initial deportations, the ruling city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Samaria, was finally taken by Sargon II after a three-year siege started by Shalmaneser V. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents

Babylonians conquer Judah

587 BCE

In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon defeated Pharaoh Necho at the Battle of Carchemish, and subsequently invaded Judah.

Persians allow Jews to return to Judah

538 BCE

Cyrus decreed throughout his empire that any captive Jews in Babylonia who desired to could return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple.

Greeks conquer holy land

332 BCE

Cyrus decreed throughout his empire that any captive Jews in Babylonia who desired to could return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple.

Maccabees revolt against Greeks

166 BCE

In the narrative of I Maccabees, after Antiochus IV issued his decrees forbidding Jewish religious practice, a rural Jewish priest from Modiin, Mattathias the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods.

Romans conquer holy land

63 BCE

The Roman Empire expanded and attacked the Holy Land.

Jesus is born

5 BCE

Mary gives birth to Jesus in a stable.