Handout 02
Overview Timeline of the OT
Primeval History
- Creation
- Fall
- Flood
- Tower Babel
Noahic Covenant
Patriarchs (~2100)
- Abraham
- Isaac (Remember Ishmael)
- Jacob = Israel (Twin Esau)
- 12 sons → 12 tribes
- Joseph & the entry into Egypt
Noahic Covenant ends
Abrahamic Covenant
Bondage in Egypt (~1876)
- 400 years in Egypt
Exodus & Sinai (1446)
Traditional date of the Exodus 1446.
- Moses
- 10 Plagues
- Exodus
- Law given at Mt. Sinai
Abrahamic Covenant ends
Sinai Covenant (with Israel)
40 Years Wandering in the Wilderness
- 12 Spies (Joshua & Caleb)
- Spy out the land for 40 days
- Disobedience at Kadesh-Barnea
- 40 Years Decreed
- Punishment
- Teenagers lived (19 and below)
Conquest (1400)
- Joshua
- Jericho
Judges (1000)
- Failure to drive out the Canaanites
- God will no longer go out with their armies
- Samson - last judge
- Had no king everyone did according to their own eyes
United Monarchy (966)
- Saul
- David
- Solomon
- Temple
Davidic Covenant (with David & his Son)
Divided Kingdom (931)
- Kingdom splits after the death of Solomon
- 10 Tribes in the North
- Judah & Benjamin in the South
Judah Alone (722)
- Fall of Samaria
- 19 kings (all bad)
- Captive by the Assyrian Empire
New Covenant prophesied
Exile (587)
- Fall of Jerusalem
- 1st Temple Destroyed
- Captive by the Babylonian Empire
Post-Exilic Period (516)
- Return from exile in Babylon
- 2nd Temple (Re-)Built
- 500 years before Herod by Ezra / Nehemiah
- Herod add to it
PEP(They are under the PErsia empire)
Covenants
| Date | Covenant | With |
|---|---|---|
| ~ | Noahic | The human race |
| 2100 | Abrahamic | With Abraham & his seed |
| 1446 | Sinai | With Israel |
| 1000 | Davidic | With David & Son |
| 722 | New | Prophesied |
Key Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1446 | The Exodus |
| 931 | Solomon builds Temple |
| 722 | North Kingdom falls |
| 587 | 1st Temple destroyed |
| 516 | 2nd Temple built |
Supplemental Dates
| Date | Event | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 539 | Fall of Babylon | Dan 5:30 | Cyrus 550-530 in Persia |
| 539–538 | First year of Cyrus in Babylon | Ezra 1:1-4 | Cyrus 539-530 over Babylon |
| 538 | Zerubbabel and 1st return of exiles | Ezra 1-6 | |
| 537 | Building of Altar | Ezra 3:1-3 | 7th month = Tishri – Sep/Oct |
| 536 | Work on temple begins | Ezra 3:8 | |
| 536–530 | Opposition during Cyrus’s reign | Ezra 4:1-5 | |
| 530–520 | Work on temple ceases | Ezra 4:24 | Persian Kings: Cambyses 530-522, Smerdis 522 |
| 520 | Work begins again under Darius | Ezra 5:2 | Darius I 522-486 |
| 520 | Events of book of Haggai | Hag 1 | |
| 520–518 | Events of book of Zechariah 1-8 | Zec 1 | |
| 516 | Temple completed | Ezra 6:15 | |
| 483–471 | Events of Book of Esther | Esther | Xerxes I (Ahasuerus) 486-465 |
| 458 | Ezra and 2nd return of exiles | Ezra 7-10 | |
| 445-444 | 20th year Artaxerxes | 1 Neh 1:1 | Artaxerxes I (Artahasta) 465-424; Chislev = Nov/Dec |
| 444 | Nehemiah approaches King | Neh 2:1 | Nisan=Mar/Apr |
| 444 | Nehemiah and 3rd return of exiles | Neh 2:11 | |
| 444 | Wall complete | Neh 6:15 | Elul = Aug/Sep |
| 444–432 | Nehemiah governor of Judah | Neh 5:14 | |
| 432 | Nehemiah goes to Babylon | Neh 13:6 | |
| 430? | Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem | Neh 13:6 | Xerxes II 424; Darius II 423-404 |