Interactive Bible timeline
Bible timeline: creation to Revelation
Every era of Scripture in order, from the first words of Genesis to the vision on Patmos. Search for a person or moment, filter by period, and open the exact passage that records it — the reading stays one tap away. Dates before the kings are traditional approximations; scholars place several of them centuries apart.
Beginnings
Before the patriarchs
Creation, the flood and the scattering of the nations — the prologue to Israel's story.
In the beginning
Creation
God speaks the heavens, the earth and every living thing into being, and calls it good.
In the beginning
The garden and the fall
Adam and Eve are placed in Eden, take the forbidden fruit, and are sent out of the garden.
c. 2900 BC (traditional)
The flood
Noah builds the ark, the waters cover the earth, and a covenant is sealed with a rainbow.
c. 2400 BC (traditional)
Babel and the scattering of nations
A tower is begun on the plain of Shinar; languages are confused and the peoples spread out.
The Patriarchs
c. 2100–1800 BC
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph: one family carrying a promise across the Fertile Crescent.
c. 2091 BC
The call of Abram
God calls Abram out of Haran with the promise of land, offspring and blessing for all nations.
c. 2081 BC
The covenant of the pieces
God swears the land to Abram's descendants and foretells four centuries in a foreign country.
c. 2066 BC
Isaac is born
The promised son arrives to Abraham at 100 and Sarah at 90 — laughter after decades of waiting.
c. 2050 BC
The binding of Isaac on Moriah
Abraham is tested on the mountain, and a ram caught in a thicket is provided in Isaac's place.
c. 1928 BC
Jacob's ladder at Bethel
Fleeing Esau, Jacob dreams of a stairway to heaven and wakes to say the LORD is in this place.
c. 1898 BC
Joseph sold into Egypt
Sold by his brothers, Joseph rises from prison to become Pharaoh's second in command.
c. 1876 BC
Jacob's family settles in Goshen
Famine drives seventy people into Egypt, where the family grows into a nation.
Exodus and Conquest
c. 1450–1350 BC
Slavery in Egypt, the covenant at Sinai, forty years of wilderness, and entry into Canaan.
c. 1446 BC
The burning bush
Moses is sent back to Egypt by the God who names himself I AM.
c. 1446 BC
The Passover and the exodus
After ten plagues, Israel leaves Egypt in a single night and crosses the sea on dry ground.
c. 1446 BC
The covenant at Sinai
The Ten Commandments are given, and Israel becomes a covenant people at the mountain.
c. 1445 BC
The tabernacle is raised
A portable sanctuary is built to plan, and the glory of the LORD fills it.
c. 1406 BC
Jordan crossed and Jericho falls
Joshua leads Israel into Canaan; the walls of Jericho come down after seven days.
Judges and the United Kingdom
c. 1350–930 BC
Tribal cycles of rescue, then Saul, David and Solomon and the first temple.
c. 1375–1050 BC
The age of the judges
A repeating cycle: Israel forgets, is oppressed, cries out, and a deliverer is raised up.
c. 1050 BC
Saul anointed as Israel's first king
Israel asks for a king like the other nations, and Samuel anoints Saul.
c. 1024 BC
David and Goliath
A shepherd boy meets the Philistine champion in the Valley of Elah with a sling and five stones.
c. 1003 BC
David takes Jerusalem
The city of Jebus becomes the City of David and the capital of a united kingdom.
c. 959 BC
Solomon's temple dedicated
Seven years of building end with the ark carried in and the cloud filling the house.
Divided Kingdom and Exile
c. 930–430 BC
Israel and Judah split, the prophets speak, Jerusalem falls, and a remnant returns.
c. 930 BC
The kingdom divides
Rehoboam's harsh answer splits the nation into Israel in the north and Judah in the south.
c. 860 BC
Elijah on Mount Carmel
Fire falls on a drenched altar and the prophets of Baal are answered by silence.
c. 780 BC
Jonah sent to Nineveh
A prophet runs the opposite way, and a pagan city repents anyway.
722 BC
Assyria destroys Samaria
The northern kingdom falls and its people are deported across the Assyrian empire.
586 BC
Jerusalem falls to Babylon
The city is burned, the temple destroyed, and Judah carried into exile.
538 BC
Cyrus lets the exiles return
A Persian decree sends a remnant home to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem.
445 BC
Nehemiah rebuilds the walls
The wall is finished in fifty-two days despite ridicule and threats.
The Life of Jesus
c. 5 BC – AD 33
From Bethlehem to the empty tomb, the four Gospels in chronological order.
c. 5 BC
Jesus is born in Bethlehem
A census brings Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem; shepherds are the first to hear.
c. AD 29
Baptised in the Jordan
John baptises Jesus; the Spirit descends and a voice speaks from heaven.
c. AD 29
Water into wine at Cana
The first sign in John's Gospel, at a village wedding running out of wine.
c. AD 30
The Sermon on the Mount
The Beatitudes and the shape of life in the kingdom, delivered on a Galilean hillside.
c. AD 31
Feeding of the five thousand
Five loaves and two fish feed a crowd, with twelve baskets left over.
c. AD 32
Lazarus raised at Bethany
Four days in the tomb, and a dead man walks out at the sound of his name.
AD 33
The triumphal entry
Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey to shouts of Hosanna and spread cloaks.
AD 33
The Last Supper
Bread broken and a cup poured in an upper room on the night before the crucifixion.
AD 33
The crucifixion
Jesus is crucified at Golgotha; the temple curtain tears from top to bottom.
AD 33
The resurrection
The stone is rolled away and the tomb is empty on the first day of the week.
The Early Church
AD 33–95
Pentecost, Paul's missionary journeys, the letters, and the vision on Patmos.
AD 33
The ascension
Jesus is taken up from the Mount of Olives with a promise to return the same way.
AD 33
Pentecost
Wind, fire and languages fall on the disciples, and three thousand are added in a day.
c. AD 34
Saul on the Damascus road
The persecutor is stopped by light and a voice, and becomes the apostle to the nations.
c. AD 40
Peter and Cornelius
A vision of a sheet and a Roman centurion open the church to the Gentiles.
c. AD 46
Paul's first missionary journey
Sent out from Antioch with Barnabas to Cyprus and the cities of Galatia.
c. AD 49
The Jerusalem council
The church decides Gentile believers need not first become Jews.
c. AD 50
The call to Macedonia
A night vision turns the mission west into Europe, beginning at Philippi.
c. AD 60
Paul reaches Rome
After shipwreck on Malta, Paul preaches for two years under house arrest in the capital.
c. AD 95
The revelation on Patmos
John, exiled on a small island, is shown the last things and a new heaven and earth.
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