OT timeline

By Razis
  • 4000 BCE

    The Creation

    Genesis 1
    https://biblehub.com/genesis/1.htm
  • 4000 BCE

    The Garden of Eden

    Genesis 2
    https://biblehub.com/genesis/2.htm
  • Period: 1400 BCE to 400 BCE

    Psalms

  • 1003 BCE

    David Reigns over All Israel

  • 1003 BCE

    Genealogies of the Israelites

  • 1003 BCE

    Saul's Overthrow and Defeat

  • Period: 1003 BCE to 970 BCE

    1 Chronicles

  • 1002 BCE

    Genealogies of the Israelites

  • 1002 BCE

    David's Army Grows

  • 1000 BCE

    Davidic Covernant

  • 1000 BCE

    David's Family Grows

  • 1000 BCE

    David fetches the ark

  • 1000 BCE

    The Ark is Brought to Jerusalem

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 400 BCE

    writing age of Psalms

  • 998 BCE

    David's Psalm of Victory (2Sa 8)

  • 998 BCE

    David's Psalm of Glory to God

  • 998 BCE

    Psalms of Praise (1Ch 16)

  • 998 BCE

    David's Psalm of Zion

  • 998 BCE

    David's festival sacrifice

  • 997 BCE

    David Purposes to build a Temple

  • 996 BCE

    David Strengthens His Kingdom

  • 995 BCE

    The Capture of Rabbah

  • 995 BCE

    David Defeats Ammon and Aram

  • 993 BCE

    David and Bathsheba

  • 991 BCE

    Nathan rebukes David

  • 991 BCE

    David's Psalm of Repentance

  • 990 BCE

    Solomon is born

  • 979 BCE

    Psalms of Asaph

  • 979 BCE

    David Forces a Census

  • 979 BCE

    Preparation of Priesthood

  • 979 BCE

    Preparation for building the Temple

  • 979 BCE

    Psalms of David

  • 979 BCE

    Psalms of Korah

  • 979 BCE

    Psalms of Unknown Authors

  • 979 BCE

    Preparation of sanctuary singers

  • 979 BCE

    Divisions of Levites

  • 979 BCE

    Preparation of gatekeepers, treasurers

  • 979 BCE

    Preparation of government

  • 976 BCE

    Absalom’s Conspiracy

  • 972 BCE

    Absalom slain by Joab

  • 972 BCE

    David's Psalm of Thirst for God

  • 972 BCE

    David Psalms of Deliverance

  • Period: 971 BCE to 586 BCE

    2 Chronicles

  • Period: 971 BCE to 1011 BCE

    2 Samuel

  • 970 BCE

    David’s last days

  • 970 BCE

    David's Psalm of Steadfastness

  • Period: 970 BCE to 853 BCE

    1 Kings

  • 967 BCE

    Solomon’s wisdom

  • 966 BCE

    God's Covenant with Solomon

  • 966 BCE

    Solomon builds the Temple in Jerusalem

  • Period: 950 BCE to 950 BCE

    Proverbs

  • Period: 950 BCE to 950 BCE

    Song of Songs

  • 939 BCE

    The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon

  • Period: 937 BCE to 937 BCE

    Ecclesiastes

  • 931 BCE

    The Kingdom is Divided

  • 931 BCE

    Solomon’s Death

  • 930 BCE

    Rehoboam's Reign over Judah

  • Period: 900 BCE to 700 BCE

    writing age of Proverbs

  • Period: 900 BCE to 900 BCE

    writing age of Song of Solomon

  • 863 BCE

    Elijah Prays for Drought

  • 863 BCE

    Elijah on Mount Carmel

  • 858 BCE

    Elisha Called

  • 858 BCE

    Elijah Flees Jezebel

  • 853 BCE

    Israel and Judah Against Syria

  • 853 BCE

    The Vision of Obadiah

  • Period: 853 BCE to 586 BCE

    2 Kings

  • Period: 853 BCE to 853 BCE

    Obadiah

  • 851 BCE

    Elijah Taken Up to Heaven

  • 851 BCE

    Elisha Succeeds Elijah

  • 849 BCE

    The Healing of Naaman

  • 849 BCE

    Elisha Raises The Shunammite boy

  • 849 BCE

    The Healing of Naaman

  • 841 BCE

    Baal Worshipers killed

  • 835 BCE

    The Word of the LORD to Joel

  • Period: 830 BCE to 800 BCE

    Joel

  • Period: 800 BCE to 500 BCE

    writing age of Joel

  • 766 BCE

    The Words of Amos

  • 760 BCE

    Jonah Sent to Nineveh

  • Period: 760 BCE to 760 BCE

    writing age of Amos

  • Period: 760 BCE to 760 BCE

    Amos

  • Period: 760 BCE to 760 BCE

    Jonah

  • 753 BCE

    Hosea's Prophecies

  • Period: 750 BCE to 722 BCE

    writing age of Hosea

  • Period: 750 BCE to 750 BCE

    Hosea

  • Period: 750 BCE to 750 BCE

    writing age of Jonah

  • Period: 740 BCE to 740 BCE

    Micah

  • 739 BCE

    Isaiah's Vision and Commission

  • Period: 739 BCE to 701 BCE

    Isaiah

  • 735 BCE

    Isaiah's Prophesy of Immanuel

  • 735 BCE

    The Word of the LORD to Micah

  • Period: 735 BCE to 700 BCE

    writing age of Micah

  • 730 BCE

    Isaiah Prophesies a Child Is Born

  • 730 BCE

    Isaiah Prophesies Judgments Upon Israel

  • 730 BCE

    Isaiah Prophesies Judgment on Assyria

  • 730 BCE

    Isaiah Prophesies The Root of Jesse

  • 725 BCE

    Isaiah's Valley of Vision

  • 725 BCE

    Isaiah Prophesies against the Nations

  • 725 BCE

    Isaiah's Further Warnings

  • 725 BCE

    Isaiah Declares God's Judgments

  • 725 BCE

    Isaiah Prophesies a King Shall Reign

  • Period: 722 BCE to 430 BCE

    Exile/Return

  • 716 BCE

    Hezekiah's Good Reign

  • 715 BCE

    Hezekiah proclaims a solemn Passover

  • 711 BCE

    Isaiah Prophesies Captivity and Restoration

  • 701 BCE

    Korah's Psalms of Refuge

  • Period: 700 BCE to 500 BCE

    writing age of Job

  • Period: 700 BCE to 680 BCE

    writing age of Isaiah

  • 697 BCE

    The Vision of Nahum

  • Period: 650 BCE to 650 BCE

    Nahum

  • Period: 650 BCE to 620 BCE

    writing age of Nahum

  • Period: 640 BCE to 620 BCE

    writing age of Zephaniah

  • 638 BCE

    The Word of the LORD to Zephaniah

  • Period: 630 BCE to 630 BCE

    Zephaniah

  • 627 BCE

    The Call of Jeremiah

  • 627 BCE

    Jeremiah Declares Judah Forsakes God

  • Period: 626 BCE to 580 BCE

    Jeremiah

  • 625 BCE

    The Oracle to Habakkuk

  • 622 BCE

    Jeremiah Proclaims God's Covenant

  • Period: 610 BCE to 610 BCE

    Habakkuk

  • Period: 610 BCE to 605 BCE

    writing age of Habakkuk

  • 609 BCE

    Jeremiah Prophesies against Egypt

  • 609 BCE

    Jeremiah Prophesies against Philistia

  • 609 BCE

    Jeremiah Proclaims Covenant Is Broken

  • 605 BCE

    Daniel Refuses the King's Portion

  • 604 BCE

    Daniel Interprets Nebuchadnezzar Dream

  • 594 BCE

    Jeremiah Prophesies against Moab

  • 594 BCE

    Jeremiah Prophesies against Ammon

  • 593 BCE

    Ezekiel's Calling and Instruction

  • 593 BCE

    Ezekiel Eats the Scroll

  • 593 BCE

    Ezekiel's Vision of the End

  • 593 BCE

    Ezekiel's Prophecy at Chebar

  • 593 BCE

    Ezekiel Foretells Siege of Jerusalem

  • Period: 593 BCE to 571 BCE

    Ezekiel

  • 592 BCE

    Ezekiel's First Temple Vision

  • 591 BCE

    Ezekiel Sees God Refuse the Elders

  • 591 BCE

    Ezekiel Prophesies against Jerusalem

  • 591 BCE

    Ezekiel Prophesies against two Sisters

  • 588 BCE

    Siege of Jerusalem Begins

  • 588 BCE

    Jeremiah Prophesies Judgment on Judah

  • 588 BCE

    Jeremiah's Conflicts

  • 587 BCE

    God's Vengeance on Ammon and Edom

  • 586 BCE

    Ezekiel Pronounces Judgment on Tyre

  • 586 BCE

    Ezekiel the Watchman

  • 586 BCE

    The Fall of Jerusalem

  • 586 BCE

    Jeremiah Prophesies against Babylon

  • 586 BCE

    Ezekiel Prophesies against Egypt

  • 586 BCE

    Psalms of Desolation

  • 586 BCE

    Jeremiah's Lamentations

  • Period: 586 BCE to 586 BCE

    writing age of Jeremiah

  • Period: 586 BCE to 553 BCE

    writing age of Obadiah

  • Period: 586 BCE to 586 BCE

    Lamentations

  • Period: 586 BCE to 550 BCE

    writing age of Lamentations

  • 585 BCE

    Ezekiel Explains Jerusalem's Fall

  • 585 BCE

    Ezekiel Sees God's judgment upon Gog

  • 585 BCE

    Ezekiel Foresees Reproof and Restoration

  • 585 BCE

    Ezekiel Sees Resurrection of Dry Bones

  • 585 BCE

    Ezekiel Sees Future battle

  • 585 BCE

    Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

  • 582 BCE

    Daniel Interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

  • 582 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

  • Period: 582 BCE to 539 BCE

    Daniel

  • 573 BCE

    Ezekiel's Second Temple Vision

  • Period: 570 BCE to 570 BCE

    writing age of Ezekiel

  • Period: 560 BCE to 540 BCE

    writing age of 1 Kings

  • Period: 560 BCE to 540 BCE

    writing age of 2 Kings

  • 539 BCE

    Daniel's Vision of the Ram and Goat

  • 539 BCE

    Daniel Prophesies Overthrow of Persia

  • 539 BCE

    Daniel Interprets Handwriting on the Wall

  • 539 BCE

    Daniel Comforted by the Angel

  • 539 BCE

    Daniel's Vision of Four Beasts

  • 539 BCE

    Daniel Survives the Lions' Den

  • 539 BCE

    Daniel's Prayer and Gabriel's Answer

  • 539 BCE

    Daniel Prophesies Deliverance for Israel

  • Period: 538 BCE to 456 BCE

    Ezra

  • 537 BCE

    The Exiles Return

  • Period: 537 BCE to 520 BCE

    Zerubbabel

  • 535 BCE

    Temple Work Begins

  • 534 BCE

    Adversaries Hinder Temple Work

  • Period: 530 BCE to 530 BCE

    writing age of Daniel

  • 520 BCE

    Temple Work Resumed by Darius' Decree

  • 520 BCE

    The Word of the LORD by Haggai

  • 520 BCE

    The Word of the LORD to Zechariah

  • Period: 520 BCE to 520 BCE

    Haggai

  • Period: 520 BCE to 518 BCE

    Zechariah

  • Period: 520 BCE to 520 BCE

    writing age of Haggai

  • Period: 520 BCE to 480 BCE

    writing age of Zechariah

  • 515 BCE

    Completion and Dedication of the Temple

  • Period: 483 BCE to 472 BCE

    Esther

  • 478 BCE

    Esther Becomes Queen

  • 478 BCE

    Mordecai Thwarts a Conspiracy

  • 474 BCE

    Haman Seeks Revenge on the Jews

  • 473 BCE

    Mordecai Informs Esther of Haman's Plot

  • 473 BCE

    Haman Is Hanged

  • 458 BCE

    Ezra Commissioned by Artaxerxes

  • 458 BCE

    Ezra Journeys to Jerusalem

  • 457 BCE

    Ezra's reforms

  • 456 BCE

    Ezra's Prayer About Intermarriage

  • Period: 450 BCE to 400 BCE

    writing age of 2 Chronicles

  • Period: 450 BCE to 400 BCE

    writing age of 1 Chronicles

  • Period: 450 BCE to 450 BCE

    writing age of Ezra

  • Period: 450 BCE to 400 BCE

    writing age of 1 Chronicles

  • Period: 450 BCE to 400 BCE

    writing age of 2 Chronicles

  • Period: 450 BCE to 400 BCE

    writing age of Ecclesiastes

  • 445 BCE

    Nehemiah's Prayer for the Exiles

  • Period: 445 BCE to 432 BCE

    Nehemiah

  • 444 BCE

    Nehemiah Abolishes Debt and Bondage

  • 444 BCE

    Israelites Fast and Repent

  • 444 BCE

    Israelites Seal the Covenant

  • 444 BCE

    Artaxerxes Sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem

  • 444 BCE

    Builders Overcome Ridicule

  • 444 BCE

    Completion of the Wall

  • 432 BCE

    Nehemiah Restores Laws

  • 430 BCE

    The Word of the LORD by Malachi

  • Period: 430 BCE to 430 BCE

    Malachi

  • Period: 430 BCE to 430 BCE

    writing age of Nehemiah

  • Period: 430 BCE to 430 BCE

    writing age of Malachi

  • 420 BCE

    Source https://biblehub.com/timeline/

  • Period: 400 BCE to 400 BCE

    writing age of Esther