Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Bible Timeline

As we progress through the Bible in a Year, I'll continue to add the dates/years that things happened. Assuming Day 1 is October 23, 4004 BC.

Births
Deaths
Events

October 23, 4004 BC- Day 1.
October 29, 4004 BC- Adam was made -Day 6; named "dust; man"
3874 BC- Seth born ( Gen 5:3; Adam + 130) named "placed;appointed" replaced Abel
3769 BC- Enos born (Gen 5:6; Seth + 105) named "mortal man"
3679BC- Cainan born (Gen 5:9; Enos + 90) named "possession"
3609- Mahalaleel born (Gen 5:12; Cainan +70) named "praise of God"
3544- Jared born (Gen 5:15; Mahalaleel +65) named "descent"
3382- Enoch born (Gen 5:18; Jared + 162) named "dedicated"
3317- Methuselah born (Gen 5:22; Enoch + 65) named "when he dies, it shall be sent"
3130- Lamech born (Gen 5:25; Methuselah +187) (unknown)
3074 BC - Adam dies (Gen 5:5 930)
3017- Enoch taken away by god (Gen 5:23; 365)
2962- Seth dies (Gen 5:8; 912)
2948- Noah born (Gen 5:28; Lamech + 182) named "rest"
2864- Enos dies (Gen 5:11; 905)
2769- Cainan dies (Gen 5:14; 910)
2714- Mahaleel dies (Gen 5:17; 895)
2448- Shem, Ham, Japheth born (Gen 5:32; Noah + 500) named "dusky"; "dark"; "fair"
2353- Lamech dies (Gen 5:31; 777)
2348- Methuselah dies (Gen 5:27; 969)
2348- Flood begins (Gen 7:6; Noah was 600)
2346- Arphaxad born (Gen 11:10; Shem +102; flood +2) named "healer"
2311-Salah born (Gen 11:11; Shem +35) named (possibly) "prayer"
2281- Eber born (Gen 11:14; Salah + 30) named "the other side"
2247- Peleg born (Gen 11:16; Eber + 34) named "division"
2217- Reu born (Gen 11:18; Peleg +30) named "behold"
2185- Serug born (Gen 11:20; Reu +32) named "branch"
2155- Nahor born (Gen 11:22; Serug +30) named "snorting"
2126- Terah born (Gen 11:24; Nahor +29) named "the wanderer"
2056- Abram, Nahor, Haran born (Gen 11:26; Terah +60) named "exalted father"; "snorting" ; "mountaineer" Abraham was named exalted father, and was the father of the 12 tribes.
2008- Peleg dies (Gen 11:19; Reu born +209)
2007- Nahor dies (Gen 11:25; Terah born +119
1998- Noah dies (wow, I never realized that Noah and Abram were contemporaries) (Gen 9:29; 950)
1981- Abram leaves Haran (Gen 12:4; Abraham was 75)
(somewhere in here, was the famine that caused Abram to go to Egypt)
1978- Reu dies (Gen 11:21; Serug born + 207)
1970- Ishmael born (Gen 16:16; Abraham 86) named "god hears"; since God heard the prayers of Sarah, that Abraham should have a son.
1957- Abraham circumcises everyone (Gen 17:1; Abram 99)
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed day after Sarah gets pregnant prophecy (Gen 18/19)
1956- Isaac born (Gen 21:5; Abraham 100) named "laughter" since Sarah laughed when told she would be pregnant.
1921- Terah dies (Gen 11:32; 205)
1916- Isaac marries Rebekah (Gen 25:20; Isaac was 40)
1908- Arphaxad dies (Gen 11:13; Salah born + 403)
1896- Jacob & Esau born (Gen 25:26; Isaac was 60) named "one who follows on another's heels" and "hairy"
1881- Abraham dies (Gen 25:7; Abraham 175)
1878- Salah dies (Gen 11:15; Eber born + 403)
1856- Esau marries the two hittite girls (Gen 26:34; Esau was 40)
1846- Shem dies (Gen 11:11; Arphaxad born +500)

1833- Ishmael dies (Gen 25:17; Ishmael 137)
*1825/1856- Jacob/Esau blessings; Jacob moves out to Labans *- it is assumed that the Jacob/Esau blessing, and Jacob fleeing to Laban also happened in 1856 otherwise it happened in1825*
*1818/1849- Jacob marries Leah (Gen. 29:20; Jacob worked for 7 years)*
*1811/1842- Jacob marries Rachel (Gen 29:27; Jacob worked for 7 more years)*
(from 1811/1842 to 1805/1836, Jacob fathers 11 boys and 1 girl)

*1805/1836 - Joseph born (Gen 30:25; Jacob demands to leave after Joseph born, this is before he sabotaged all of Laban's livestock) *
*1804/1835- Jacob leaves Laban (Gen 29:30)
*1788/1819- Joseph starts to dream (Gen. 37:2; Joseph was 17)*
1817- Eber dies (Gen 11:17; Peleg born +430)

1807 - Serug dies (Gen 11:23; Nahor born +200)
*1775/1806- Joseph stands in front of Pharaoh (Gen 41:46; Joseph was 30)*
*1768/1799- End of the 7 years of plenty; beginning of the famine*
*1761/1792- End of the famine*

1776- Isaac dies (Gen 35:28; Isaac 180)
(remember, Esau was planning on killing Jacob after Isaac died)
1766- Jacob goes into Egypt (Gen 47:9/28; Jacob lived in Egypt 17 years)
1749- Jacob dies (Gen. 47:28; Jacob 147)
*1695/1726- Joseph dies (Gen 50:26; Joseph 110)
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1672- Levi dies (Exodus 6:16) (roughly assuming he was born in the 3rd year of the birthing spree)
1420- Aaron born (Exodus 7:7; Aaron was 83 when he talked to Pharaoh)
1417- Moses born (Exodus 7:7; Moses was 80 when he talked to Pharaoh)
1337 - Plagues of Egypt
1336 - Moses leads the people out of Egypt (Exodus 12:40; Jacob into Egypt +430)

1335 - Tabernacle set up for the first time (Exodus 40:17)

Where there are two years, the first is based on calculations of is Jacob moved to Laban when he was 40. The second date is based on working backwards from 1749 of Jacobs death. There is a 31 year discrepancy between the two dates. This means that Esau was married for 31 years before he realized that his parents didn't like his wives. The second date means that Jacob fled to Laban in 1825. The 1825 date makes slightly more sense, because otherwise Isaac (practically on his deathbed providing blessings for Jacob and Esau happened 49 years before he died, if it was in 1856, he was in that state for 80 years. The second date also means that Jacob started having kids when he was 85. The lower number date is probably the correct one.

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