This document provides a potted timeline of key events in the Old Testament. It begins with Creation around 4000 BC. Some notable events include the Flood in 2350 BC, the Tower of Babel in 2250 BC, Abraham living around 2000-1800 BC, the Israelites spending 400 years in Egypt, being ruled by Judges for 400 years, then having one King for 165 years until the kingdom split into Israel and Judah. Both northern and southern kingdoms eventually fell - Israel to Assyria after 200 years and Judah to Babylon after 340 years, with the Babylonian captivity lasting 70 years.

1. A Potted Timeline of the Old
Testament

2. A Potted Timeline of the Old
Testament
a simple Timeline to give you some idea of the historical
flow of the word from God in the Old Testament

3. The Bible
 Let’s take the Bible as the Word of God
 Let’s take the dates as literal
 Let’s take the years as being approximately the same
as ours
 After all the earth, the sun and the heavens still
remain

4. The Historical Record
 Let’s take the historical record as given
 When we look at the Old Testament as an historical
record and Timeline we will arrive at:

5. God created the world
 About 6000 years ago
 There is plenty of evidence to believe in a young earth

6. We are looking at timelines
 NOT DISPENSATIONAL DIVISIONS
 There are two dispensations – the old and the new
 Don’t let teachings of “dispensational truths” rob you
of the promises that God makes to you

7. Creation to the time of the flood
 The creation was about 4000 BC.
 In this potted Timeline we will stay with generalities
 The flood was 2350 BC 1650 years after Adam
 Tower of Babel 2250 BC 600 years after the flood

8. The timeline of the Old Testament
 Shows Methuselah died not long before the flood
 Shows that Lamech, Noah’s father, was born about 80
years before Adam died
 Shows that Noah died while Abraham’s father was still
living

9. After the flood lifespan is reduced
 Adam lived for 930 years
 Methuselah lived for 1000 years
 Noah lived for 950 years
 Abraham lived for 175 years

10. The History of the Israelites
 Down in Egypt for about 400 years
 They were ruled by judges for about 400 years
 Then they demanded the King

11. United under one King
 They lasted about 165 years
 The kingdom split into the Northern Kingdom and The
Southern Kingdom – Israel & Judah

12. The Northern Kingdom
 lasted 200 years before the Assyrians disbursed them
throughout the world

13. The Southern Kingdom
 Lasted 340 years before being led captive into Babylon

14. The Babylonian Captivity
 From the fall of Judah to the first refugees returning
to Jerusalem was about 70 years
 They came back in dribs and drabs
 Babylon was going to be overthrown and God wanted
Jerusalem and the temple rebuilt for the coming of the
Messiah.

15. Between the Old and the New
Testament
 About 400 years with the Scriptures being quite silent
about this period.
 The Roman Empire occupies the country from about 65 BC
for about 140 years
 Julius Caesar rules the Roman Empire about 46 BC for about
90 years
 Herod is the king of the Jews about 37 BC unto 4 AD

16. The time of Jesus and early New
Testament
 Jerusalem and the Temple sacked by Rome 70 A.D.
 Judah and the Jews disbursed throughout the world

17. The church (the people of God) now
 are those who follow the Lord Jesus Christ both Jew
and Gentile in one body
 this is not a political or secular kingdom
 this is not a kingdom of this world

18. Here we are just over 2000 AD
 We are waiting for the Lord to come again
 Prophecy in the New Testament is not the same as
prophecy in the Old Testament because no man knows
the day or the date of his appearing.