Can you give me a basic timeline of the Bible?

The principal events stand thus: B.C. 4004 Adam created. 2948 Noah born. 2348 The Flood. 1996 Abraham born. 1921 Call of Abraham. 1896 Isaac born. 1836 Jacob born. 1706 The Israelites enter Egypt. 1491 The Exodus. The law given. 1451 The Israelites cross the Jordan. 1444 The division of the land. (See JUDGES.) 1095 Saul anointed king: the kingdom begins. 1055 David, king. 1015 Solomon, king. 1005 Dedication of the Temple. 975 Division of the kingdom. (See KINGS.) (776 Era of the Olympiads begins.) (753 Rome built: era of A.U.C. begins.) 740 Captivity of the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan. 721 End of the kingdom of Israel. 658 Manasseh carried to Babylon. 606 Jerusalem taken: first captivity of Judah. 605 Nebuchadnezzar reigns alone. Time of the Gentiles begins in the first great empire — Babylon. 599 Jerusalem re-taken: the great captivity. 588 Jerusalem re-taken and destroyed. 538 Belshazzar slain: the second great empire commences. The Medes and Persians. 536 Cyrus reigns alone. The 70 years of Jer. 25:11-12 end. The Jews return. Ezra 1, 2: (See PERSIA.) 475 Artaxerxes succeeds Xerxes. 455 Artaxerxes commissions Nehemiah to build Jerusalem. The Seventy Weeks of Daniel begin. 336 Alexander the Great, head of the third great empire — The Greek. 323 Death of Alexander the Great: his four Generals divide the kingdom, but it mainly merged into two kingdoms: Egypt, 'kings of the South,' and Syria, 'kings of the north.' (See ANTIOCHUS.) 191 All Asia Minor on the west of Mount Taurus delivered to Rome. 166 to about 65 The times of the Maccabees. In 166 Jerusalem was recovered and the temple re-dedicated. 65 Rome, the fourth great empire, rapidly gains ascendancy. Syria becomes a Roman province. In 63 Judaea is subjected to Rome. In 30 Egypt becomes a Roman province. 40 Herod is appointed by Rome king of Judaea. 20 Herod begins to rebuild the temple 6 Birth of John the Baptist. 5 Birth of Christ. (See NEW TESTAMENT.)

YEARS. 1656 … From Adam to the Flood … (Arrived at by adding the ages of the patriarchs, when the sons named were born.) 427 … From the Flood to the Call of Abraham … (This is found in the same manner, and putting Terah's age at 130 when Abraham … was born, that is, adding 60 years to Gen. 11:26: where only one date is given … for Terah's three sons. Abraham may not have been the eldest, and may have been … born long after. Compare Gen. 11:32; Gen. 12:4, with Acts 7:4.) 430 … From the Call of Abraham to the Exodus … (This is obtained from Ex. 12:40 and Gal. 3:17.) 479 … From the Exodus to the Temple … (This is stated in 1 Kings 6:1 as in the 480th year, or 479 complete years.) 37 … From the commencement of the Temple to the division of the kingdom … (Solomon reigned 40 years, 1 Kings 11:42 and the Temple was begun in his 4th year.) 388 … From the division of the kingdom to the destruction of Jerusalem … (Stated in Ezek. 4:4-6 to be 390 years, or 388 complete years.) 52 … From the destruction of Jerusalem to the return of the captives … (They were captives 70 years, Jer. 25:11-12; Jer. 29:10. This began in the 1st year … of Nebuchadnezzar, and Jerusalem was destroyed in his 19th year: 70 - 18 = 52.) … From the 1st year of Cyrus to the 20th year of Artaxerxes, 81 … when the 70 weeks of Daniel commenced … (Not given in scripture. Cyrus, 7 years; Cambyses, 7; Pseudo-smerdis, 1; … Darius, 36; Xerxes, 11; Artaxerxes, 19.) 454 … From the 20th of Artaxerxes to the Era A.D. … (From the 20th of Artaxerxes to the crucifixion is, according to Dan. 9, … 69 weeks = 483 years; from which deduct 29, the date of the crucifixion: … 483 - 29 = 454). See SEVENTY WEEKS. ____ 4004 TOTAL

TimeDispensationReferenceFailureJudgment1Creation to the fallInnocenceGen. 2:15–17The fall (Gen. 3:6)Banished from Eden (Gen. 3:22–24)2Fall to the floodConscienceGen. 3:7, 22Murder by Cain (Gen. 4:8)Flood (Gen. 6:5, 11–14)3Flood to tower of BabelGovernmentGen. 9:1, 2, 6Noah’s sin (Gen. 9:20–25)Confusion of language (Gen. 11:1–8)4Call of Abraham to SinaiPromiseGen. 12:1–3Abraham’s lack of faith (Gen. 12:10–20)Slavery in Egypt (Ex. 1)5From Moses to ChristLawEx. 19:1–8; 20Initial: Ex. 32 Recurring: 2 Ki. 17:7. Final: Acts 2:23; 7:51, 52Captivity (2 Chron. 36); destruction of Jerusalem (Luke 21:6, 20–24)6Pentecost to the rapture Grace / church / SpiritActs 2:1Acts 5; 6; 20:30; 1 John 2:18, 19, 22 Christendom judged at the appearing (2 Thess. 2:7–12; Rev. 3:16; Rev. 17-18)71,000-year reign of Christ MillenniumIsa. 11; Rev. 20 Eph. 1:10Ps. 101; Rev. 20:7–9Judgment of the nations (Rev. 20:3; 20:7–10)

The first period may be called the family period, as distinguished from their existence as a nation; this is from the call of Abram to the going into Egypt. Second, from this point to the establishment of kingly rule in David, a period when the high priest was the first man in the nation — Moses having had a place peculiar as their leader through the wilderness — who had to do immediately with God as King. Third, the time of the kings who had the place of being the representatives of the nation before God, closing with the carrying away to Babylon. Fourth, thence onward to the birth of Christ. Fifth, the brief period of His life here. Sixth, their present dispersion. The seventh (yet future) is the time of millennial glory. To these distinct periods there are features peculiar to each, most of them distinguished by their condition as a nation, and their position before God, and the lessons He was teaching in each. But the family lesson, the domestic training, comes first — God's rights in the family circle. These are as important as His authority over conscience and individual action. Alas! God's authority in family matters is too often unremembered by saints now. Christian parents are responsible to keep their children, even while unconverted, according to God's order of what a christian household should be. In the household of Abraham there is much more of godly order than in that of Jacob. In them we see the exercise of faith, and consequent blessing, or the lack of faith, and the sure rebuke and chastening.

Upon the face of revelation it is not very hard to discover at least so many epochs of special interpositions of the Divine Worker as answer to these creative days. Thus we have (1) The antediluvian period, opened with the promise of the woman's seed; (2) Human government set up in Noah; (3) The call of Abraham, and in him of an elect family, out of all the families of the earth; (4) The church period; (5) The time of trouble after the church is taken up; (6) The millennial kingdom; (7) The eternal rest. These are all not only strictly defined periods, with each a special character of its own, but they are really stages of progress, the effects of which remain. Some that we might think at first sight strangely omitted in this enumeration have not in reality this character of permanent steps of progress at all. Thus the law, needful as it undoubtedly was, was in some important respects rather retrogression than progress. The apostle's own account of it is, that "it came in by the way" (parioeelthe); that "it was added because of transgression, till the seed should come." So it is not represented here. The transfer of dominion to the Gentiles could still less, though for a like reason, come in. We have then just these seven periods left - six formative, and the seventh the final rest, the "sabbatism" that remains to the people of God.

Thus we have man (ha-Adam) and the end of all flesh - Noah, and the new world, and his failure - the government of the world based on this failure by calling and judgment (on Ham's family), and the preference of younger to elder - providential arrangements thus ordered, and then further - Babel and violent power, beginning the subsequent history - and then the family of the owned seed. The call of Abraham begins all on a new basis.

103 As soon as the fact of creation is set out in chapter 1, you see the world as the sphere in which God is going to put man, and in which all moral relationships are to be brought out: here stands first the responsible man; then his naming the animals; then his wife is given (chap. 2). There is thus the creation of this world and of what is in it, creatures and so on and man, as a centre and lord of it, in God's image, the world fashioned for the purpose, and the rest of God, which man never entered into. Then follow the relationships in which God set man, to Himself, to the inferior creatures, and to his wife (in which the church is typified). Next man's responsibility is tried by temptation, and we see his utter failure, but the judgment on Satan, the serpent, with a promise to the Seed of the woman who should bruise the serpent's head (chap. 3). But the first man is driven out from God, and then he becomes the head of a fallen race, though Eve hopes to get the promise in the flesh, saying that she had got a man from Jehovah. Alas! man completes sin by killing his brother, and the world is set up without God; but God gives another and an appointed seed, Seth (when men called on the name of Jehovah), in lieu of the slayer and the slain. Christ was slain; the world slew Him; but He is coming again in glory; this is what all that typifies (chap. 4). Then comes the genealogy of the race of Seth, and one walks with God who is transformed and taken away to heaven (chap. 5). Last comes the total corruption and wickedness of man up to the flood, with Noah preserved through it, man and animals too (chaps. 6-8). This closes the history of the first world. Next Noah founds the relationships of the new world upon sacrifice; but he fails himself entirely: and, having given the prophecy of the world's establishment in his three sons, his history closes. God gives a promise not to bring in a flood any more, but there is no great principle in this that I know of Government was set up to restrain; but this fails, and it closes Noah's history (chap. 9).

It is not only that mankind sprang from a single pair created innocent as Adam and Eve were. A fresh start for the race began after the deluge which judged the guilty mass. From Noah and his three sons preserved from destruction, conditions began which subsist today and will for their descendants till, with the clouds of heaven, the Son of man come to Whom shall be given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peoples, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. So recent comparatively is the history of man, and his tripartite separation of land and tongue, family and nation. For instead of beginning with a single line, we have three heads with their wives, three great families to renew the history of man on earth with the experience derived from the antediluvian earth.

To review briefly, we have seen how everything was planned by God for the carrying out of His purpose of blessing for men in Christ. The call of Abraham; the choice of Isaac and then Jacob; all the troubles that happened to Joseph to fit him for the extraordinary part he had to play; the dream of the chief butler and its timely interpretation; the seven years’ plenty, followed by the seven years’ famine; the power of Joseph to settle his kinsmen in Goshen; the patronising Pharaoh who settled them in Egypt; after four hundred years, the rise of a persecuting Pharaoh to drive them out; the remarkable training and leadership of Moses; the miraculous sustainment of the children of Israel in the wilderness; the possession of Canaan; the history of the Bible; centring round Israel, whether under judges or kings; Israel and Judah’s captivity; the times of the Gentiles starting with Nebuchadnezzar; the resettling of the land as narrated by Ezra and Nehemiah—all was designed of God with a foreknowledge and exactitude that none but the All-wise could conceive and bring about.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. B.C. 27 Augustus emperor of Rome 6 Census in Judaea. Birth of John the Baptist 5 Birth of Jesus (Four full years before A.D.) Presentation in the temple. 4 Visit of the magi. Flight into Egypt, Massacre of infants. Death of Herod; Archelaus made ethnarch of Judaea, Samaria and Idumaea Herod Antipas tetrarch of Peraea and Galilee. Philip tetrarch of Ituraea, Trachonitis. etc. A.D. 6 Quirinis (Cyrenius) governor of Syria the second time Archelaus banished, and Judaea made a province of Syria. 7 Enrolment, or taxation, under Cyrenius. Annas made high priest 8 Jesus at Jerusalem. Luke 2:42-46 14 Tiberias emperor of Rome: reigns alone 17 Caiaphas made high priest 26 Pontius Pilate procurator of Judaea John commences his ministry. (See TIBERIUS.) Mark 1:1-11 Baptism of Jesus. The Temptation Miracle of the water made wine at Cana. John 2:1-11 Jesus visits Capernaum The first Passover. Jesus cleanses the temple. John 2:13-22 John cast into prison. Jesus preaches in Galilee Mark 1:14-15 Jesus at the synagogue at Nazareth: cast out of the city. Luke 4:16-30 Jesus visits the towns of Galilee Mark 1:38-39 27 Jesus visits Jerusalem (probably the second Passover). John 5. 1 The twelve Apostles chosen Mark 3:13-19 Sermon on the Mount. Matt. 5.- 7; Luke 6:17-49 Miracles in the land of the Gadarenes. Mark 5:1-20 The Jews offended at Jesus at Nazareth. Mark 6:1-5 Jesus again visits the villages around. Mark 6:6 Jesus sends forth the twelve. Mark 6:7-13 Death of John the Baptist. Mark 6:17-29 Feeding the five thousand. Mark 6:35-44 Miracles in Gennesaret. Mark 6:53-56 28 Approach of the third Passover John 6:4 Feeding the four thousand. Mark 8:1-9 The Transfiguration. Mark 9:2-10 Feast of Tabernacles. John 7. Journey towards Jerusalem. Luke 9:51 The seventy disciples sent out. Luke 10:1-16 Feast of Dedication (winter). John 10:22-39 Jesus goes away beyond Jordan. John 10:40-42 The raising of Lazarus at Bethany. John 11:1-44 Jesus retires to Ephraim. John 11:54 29 Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. Cleanses the temple Mark 11:1-18 The Greeks visit Jesus. Voice from heaven. John 12:20-36 The last (fourth) Passover. The Lord's supper Mark 14:1-2 The Crucifixion. Ascension. Pentecost 30-34 The events from Pentecost to Stephen. Acts 2 — Acts 7 35 Martyrdom of Stephen. Saul "a young man" Acts 7:58-60 Great persecution, disciples scattered except the apostles Acts 8:1-4 36 Conversion of Saul (three years before his flight from Damascus.) Acts 9:26-28; (Gal. 1:18) 37 Caius (Caligula) emperor of Rome; reigns 4 years Herod Agrippa succeeds Herod Antipas Caiaphas deposed, and Jonathan made high priest 38 Paul, at Damascus and in Arabia.Gal. 1:15-18 39 Paul's first visit to Jerusalem; sent to Tarsus. Gal. 1:18; Acts 9:26-30 40 Conversion of Cornelius Acts 10. 41 Claudius emperor of Rome; reigns 13 years Judaea and Samaria united, under Herod Agrippa as king Herod (brother of Agrippa) king of Chalcis Gospel preached to the Gentiles at Antioch Acts 11:20 Barnabas goes to Antioch; fetches Paul Acts 11:26 42-3 They remain a year at Antioch Herod Agrippa's persecution. James beheaded Acts 12:2 Peter's imprisonment and release Acts 12:3-19 44 Death of Herod Agrippa. Palestine again a Roman province Acts 12:23 Paul's second visit to Jerusalem, with the collection. Acts 11:30 45 Paul returns to Antioch Acts 12:25 46-8 First journey of Paul and Barnabas to Cyprus and Asia Minor Acts 13. & Acts 14. 48 Ananias nominated high priest by Herod, king of Chalcis 49-50 Paul, after return, remains a long time at Antioch Acts 14:28 Dispute concerning circumcision, council at Jerusalem Acts 15:1 50 Paul's third visit to Jerusalem with Barnabas (fourteen years from his conversion. Gal. 2. 1) Acts 15:2 Returns and stays at Antioch. Acts 15:35 51 Second journey of Paul with Silas and Timothy through Asia Minor to Macedonia and Greece Acts 16. & Acts 17. Felix made procurator 52 Paul spends a year and a half at Corinth Acts 18:11 First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians written. The Jews banished from Rome 53 Paul leaves Corinth, and sails to Ephesus 54 Nero emperor of Rome; reigns 14 years Paul's fourth visit to Jerusalem. Returns to Antioch Acts 18:22 Third journey through Galatia and Phrygia Acts 18:23 55-6 Paul at Ephesus two years and three months. Acts 19:8, 10 Epistle to the Galatians written. First epistle to the Corinthians written. Tumult at Ephesus. Acts 19:23. Paul goes to Macedonia. 2 Cor. 2:13; Acts 20:1 57 Second Epistle to the Corinthians written. Paul goes to Corinth, and stays three months Acts 20:2-3 58 Epistle to the Romans written. Paul leaves Corinth, and goes through Macedonia with Luke.