Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Maps and timeline from Bible


Temple timeline

957 BC - Solomon built 1st temple completed year
586 BC - temple destroyed and exile to Babylon
559 BC - beginning of the 2nd Temple period
516 BC - 2nd temple completed (after 70yrs of 1st destruction)
18 BC - Herod renovated
70 AD - destroyed by Romans
638 AD - Umar captured Jerusalem city
14 May 1948 - declared as independent (after 1310yrs) 70x18=1260

Timeline of history

2000 BC - Abraham
1900 BC - Isaac
1800 BC- Jacob
1700 BC - Joseph
1500 BC - Enslavement in Egypt
1446 BC - Exodus (Red sea - Sinai - Promised land)
1380-1045 BC - Judges period
1021-1000 BC - King Saul
1000-970 BC - King David
970-931 BC - King Solomon
960 BC - 1st Temple Completed
931 BC - Split Northern kingdom (Samaria) and Southern (Judah)
931-913 BC - King Rehoboam of Judah
931-910 BC - King Jeroboam of Israel
740-700 BC - Isaiah
740-698 BC - Micah
-721 BC: Hosea
740-722 BC - The Kingdom of Israel falls to the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Resulted in the deportation of many Israelites, often referred to as the "Lost Ten Tribes", This marked the end of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, leaving only the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
715-687 BC - King Hezekiah of Judah
649-609 BC - King Josiah of Judah
629-587 BC - Jeremiah
622-570 BC: Ezekiel
620-536 BC: Daniel
597 BC - The first deportation of the Judean Israelites to Babylon, when King Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and exiled King Jehoiachin.
586 BC - Jerusalem falls to King Nebuchadnezzar II leading to the destruction of Solomon's Temple.

SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD

539 BC: Jews were allowed to Return to Zion, with Cyrus II's permission.
520 BC: Zechariah
516 BC: The Second Temple in Jerusalem is consecrated, symbolizing the restoration of Jewish worship after the Babylonian exile.
475 BC: Esther
460 BC: Ezra
332 BC: Alexander the Great the King of Macedonia, one of the largest empires of the ancient world, conquers Phoenicia and the Levant
150-100 BC - Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) was finalized. Jewish religious texts written after Ezra's time were not included in the canon, later incorporated into the Greek translation of the Bible (the Septuagint)
140-63 BC - Hasmonean dynasty
40 BC - Herod the Great was appointed King of the Jews by the Roman Senate
4 BC - Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem, Herodian Kingdom.

JESUS

33 AD: Jesus was crucified, Christianity
40 AD: The disciples of Jesus were first called "Christians" in Antioch
66-135 AD: destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. Roman Judea remained under Roman control, renamed and merged into the province of Syria Palaestina
367 AD: Athanasius lists the 27 New Testament books.
382-419 AD: Councils in Rome, Hippo, and Carthage ratify the 73-book Catholic canon


Maps

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob time
Exodus
Canaan
Tribal allotment
David time
Ark of Covenant locations
Solomon time
Sidon, Tyre
Assyrian empire
Babylonian empire
Persian Empire
Judah after exile
Greek Empire
Israel during time of Jesus

Timeline - 20th Century

1917 - The British defeat the Turks and gain control of Palestine
1918-1939 - The period between the two World Wars
1929 - A long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalates into Palestine riots.
1948 May 14 - The State of Israel declares itself as an independent Jewish state
1948 May 15 - Arab–Israeli War
1956 - Suez War
1967 - Six-Day War. Israel launches a pre-emptive strike against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
1973 - Yom Kippur War. Egypt and Syria
1987-93 - First Intifada
2000 September 29 - Second (al-Aqsa) Intifada
2005 March 31- The Government of Israel officially recognizes the Bnei Menashe people of Northeast India as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
2006 Jul-Aug - Hezbollah cross border raid
2017 Dec - Jerusalem as Capital

The Bible - books

The Bible contains of 73 books. i.e. 46 books in old testament and 27 books in new testament.

The English word Bible is derived from τὰ βιβλία (Koinē Greek), ta biblia (romanized), meaning 'the books'. The word βιβλίον itself literally means 'scroll'.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in the caves of Qumran in 1947, are copies that can be dated to between 250 BCE and 100 CE. They are the oldest existing copies of the books of the Hebrew Bible of any length that are not fragments.

The term Bible can refer to :

a) the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), which corresponds to the Christian Old Testament. “Tanakh” is an acronym for the three sections, the Torah (the Five Books of Moses), Nevi’im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings).

150-100 BC - Tanakh was finalized. Jewish religious texts written after Ezra's time were not included in the canon, later incorporated into the Greek translation of the Bible (the Septuagint) 

b) the Christian Bible, which in addition to the Old Testament contains the New Testament.

382-419 AD: Councils in Rome, Hippo, and Carthage ratify the 73-book Catholic canon 

Old Testament

PENTATEUCH 

Five Books of Moses / The Torah (teaching)

1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy

HISTORY

Former Prophets / Nevi'im Rishonim (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings)

6. Joshua
7. Judges
8. Ruth (Five Scrolls 2)
9. 1 Samuel
10. 2 Samuel
11. 1 Kings
12. 2 Kings

13 1 Chronicles (Ketuvim - History)
14 2 Chronicles (Ketuvim - History)
15 Ezra (Ketuvim - History)
16 Nehemiah (Ketuvim - History)
17 Tobit (Septuagint)
18 Judith (Septuagint)
19 Esther (Five Scrolls 4)
20 1 Maccabees (Septuagint)
21 2 Maccabees (Septuagint)

WISDOM AND POETRY 

Ketuvim / Writings (Poetic books, Five scrolls, Septuagint)

22. Job (Ketuvim - Poetic books)
23. Psalms (Ketuvim - Poetic books)
24. Proverbs (Ketuvim - Poetic books)

25. Ecclesiastes (Five Scrolls 5)
26. Song of Songs (Five Scrolls 1)
27. Wisdom (Septuagint)
28. Sirach/Ecclesiasticus (Septuagint)

PROPHECY / Nevi'im

Latter Prophets /Nevi'im Aharonim (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel)

29. Isaiah
30. Jeremiah
31. Lamentations (Five Scrolls 3)
32. Baruch  (Septuagint)
33. Ezekiel
34. Daniel (Ketuvim - History)

Twelve Minor Prophets
35. Hosea
36. Joel
37. Amos
38. Obadiah
39. Jonah
40. Micah
41. Nahum
42. Habakkuk
43. Zephaniah
44. Haggai
45. Zechariah
46. Malachi

New Testament

GOSPELS

1. Matthew
2. Mark
3. Luke
4. John

HISTORY

5. Acts

PAULINE AND OTHER LETTERS

6. Romans
7. 1 Corinthians
8. 2 Corinthians
9. Galatians
10. Ephesians
11. Philippians
12. Colossians
13. 1 Thessalonians
14. 2 Thessalonians
15. 1 Timothy
16. 2 Timothy
17. Titus
18. Philemon
19 Hebrews

CATHOLIC LETTERS

20. James
21. 1 Peter
22. 2 Peter
23. 1 John
24. 2 John
25. 3 John
26. Jude

APOCALYPSE

27. Revelation