The ten-tribe kingdom got off to a bad start when King Jeroboam introduced calf worship. However, the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, as well as the Levites, stuck with the royal house of David. 2:11 11:42.ĭuring the reign of Solomon’s son Rehoboam, in 997 B.C.E., ten tribes revolted and made Jeroboam their king. David’s son Solomon succeeded him and likewise reigned for forty years.- 2 Sam. His total years of rulership amounted to forty. 2:2, 3, 8-10 Acts 13:20-22) Seven and a half years after David began ruling over Judah he became king over all Israel. With the end of his forty-year rule, David started to reign at Hebron over the tribe of Judah, while Saul’s son Ish-bosheth ruled from Mahanaim over the rest of Israel. During the lifetime of Samuel, the last of these judges, Saul of the tribe of Benjamin, began his reign as king. 14:10-12) For about 350 years thereafter judges chosen by God administered Israel’s affairs.
5:6, 7) The major conquest of the land occupied some six years. 3:17.Īfter wandering in the wilderness for forty years, the Israelites, under Joshua’s leadership, entered Canaan in 1473 B.C.E. Finally, Jacob’s descendants, the Israelites, were enslaved, but Jehovah God, by means of Moses, led them out of Egypt to Mount Sinai, where they received the Law covenant 430 years after the special covenant was made with their forefather Abraham.- Gen. Due to famine conditions in Canaan, Jacob’s entire household became alien residents in Egypt. One of these, Joseph, through unusual circumstances, became food administrator in Egypt. 21:5) About ten years after Noah’s son Shem died, Isaac, at the age of sixty, became father to twin boys, Esau and Jacob. 12:4-7) At that time, in 1943 B.C.E., Jehovah’s covenant promise to Abraham took effect.Ībraham, at the age of one hundred, became the father to Isaac by his beloved wife Sarah. 9:28.Ībout seventy-seven years after Noah’s death, Abraham, at the age of seventy-five, entered Canaan, the land that Jehovah God promised to give to Abraham’s descendants. 10:25) Noah was still alive, as he lived for 350 years after the flood.- Gen. 10:8-10 11:1-4) This happened in the days of Peleg, sometime between 2269 B.C.E. Jehovah God frustrated Nimrod’s project by confusing the language of the builders of Babel. Nimrod set himself up as the first king and evidently instigated the building of Babel and its tower. It was not long after the Flood that Ham’s grandson Nimrod started a rebellion against God. As the waters overwhelmed the earth, Noah, his wife, his three sons (Shem, Ham and Japheth) and their wives were safe inside the ark that had been built at God’s direction.- Gen. 3:19, 20 Jude 6) In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, the flood brought an end to the ungodly world of mankind. In Noah’s time many angels forsook their proper dwelling place in the heavens, materialized, lived as husbands with women, and fathered hybrid offspring, the Nephilim. His great-grandson Noah was born about 126 years after Adam’s death.- Gen. ( 1 John 3:12) Enoch, who was a contemporary of Adam for 308 years, prophesied about God’s coming judgment against all the wicked.
Because he was righteous, Abel was murdered by his brother Cain, Adam’s first son. there were three outstanding men of faith-Abel, Enoch and Noah.
From that time until the flood in 2370 B.C.E. Since so much time is covered, how can a person get in their proper order the events narrated? Try to relate the various happenings to such major events as the creation of Adam, the Flood, Israel’s deliverance from Egypt, and the life of Christ.īible chronology places Adam’s creation in the year 4026 B.C.E. WITH the exception of information about creation, the Bible basically spans some 4,000 years of human history.