Old Testament Timeline

The Old Testament tells a single, sweeping story, but its books are not arranged in order — so a timeline is the easiest way to see the whole arc at once. This view runs from the patriarch Abraham through the Exodus, the conquest, the kingdoms, the exile, and the return, with the great empires charted beneath.

Use it to orient any book in the bigger picture: where the prophets fall relative to the kings, how the exile divides the story, and how each era hands off to the next. As always, the earliest dates are approximate and the Exodus and conquest dates depend on the disputed early/late scheme, which you can toggle on the chart.