Timeline
The main events of the Bible in order, from creation to Paul in Rome. Click an event to read the text.
Primeval history4
The Fall
The Flood
God's covenant with Noah
The patriarchs5
Abraham and Lot separate
Sodom destroyed
Joseph sold into Egypt
Seven years of famine
The trial of Job
The exodus and the land7
The exodus from Egypt
The Ten Commandments given
The wilderness wanderings
The tabernacle built
Crossing the Jordan into Canaan
The wars in the land
The land divided
The judges3
Deborah and Barak
Gideon
Jephthah
The kings10
The reign of Saul
David and Goliath
The reign of David
The reign of Solomon
Solomon's temple built
The kingdom divided: Jeroboam
The prophecies of Elijah
The prophecies of Elisha
The reign of Hezekiah
The reign of Josiah
The prophets11
The prophecy of Jonah
Amos
Hosea
Isaiah
Micah
Jeremiah
Daniel
Ezekiel
Haggai and the rebuilding of the temple
Zechariah
Malachi
The life and ministry of Jesus19
The birth of John the Baptist foretold
The birth of Jesus
John the Baptist begins his ministry
The temptations of Jesus
Jesus and Nicodemus
The Samaritan woman
Fishers of men
The Sermon on the Mount
Parables by the sea
The Gadarene demoniacs
The feeding of the five thousand
Jesus walks on water
The Bread of Life
The Transfiguration
The Light of the World
The Good Shepherd
The man born blind healed
Lazarus raised
Blind Bartimaeus
The early church12
Peter and John before the council
Stephen's speech
Philip preaches in Samaria
Saul converted
Peter and Cornelius
Paul's first missionary journey
The Jerusalem council
Paul's second missionary journey
Paul's third missionary journey
Paul gives his testimony
Paul's journey to Rome
The shipwreck
The years follow the traditional chronology in Theographic (the Ussher tradition). They are approximate and disputed, especially before the kings. Use them as an order, not as fact. The backgrounds are maps from George Adam Smith’s atlas (1915), public domain.