CHRONOLOGY OF THE HEBREW'S WANDERINGSSECOND PERIODFROM THE BIRTH OF TERAH TO THE PASSOVER NIGHT.EMBRACES 530 YEARS. | ||||
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| A.M. | Name and Events | Years | References | B.C. |
| 1862 | Nahor begets Terah | 0 | Gen. 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: | 2022 |
| 1931 | Terah begets Abram | 69 | Gen. 11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. | 1953 |
| 1960 | Abram is called out of Ur of the Chaldees at age 30 (See note 3)Start of Sojourning of Children of Israel's 430 years till Passover (see note 4) | 29 | Gen 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. Gen. 15:7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. Gen. 12:4-5 "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran . And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came." Neh 9:7-8 "Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:" Acts 7:-5 "And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell." Exo. 12:40-41 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. Gal. 3:7 "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect." |
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| 1998 | Noah dies 950 years Old | 38 | Gen 9:28-29 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. | 1886 |
| 2005 | Abram leaves Haran at age 75 | 7 | Gen. 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. Gen 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. | 1879 |
| Abram enters land and goes to Sichem in plain of Moreh: The Lord
promises Abram the land. Abram moves to a mountain east of Bethel Abram moves south, ends up in Egypt Leaves Egypt and goes back to Bethel Lot and Abram separate, Promises made to Abram, Abram settles on the plain of Mamre Abram wars with nations, saves Lot, pays tithes to Melchizedek Covenant confirmed to Abram |
Gen 12:6-7 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto
the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the
LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and
there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Gen 12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. Gen 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. Gen 13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; Gen 13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. Gen 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. Gen 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: |
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2015 |
Abram marries Hagar at age 85, or 10 years after leaving Haran |
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Gen. 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. |
1869 |
| 2016 | Ishmael born to Abram the following year at age 86 | 1 | Gen. 16:16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. | 1868 |
| 2029 | Abram's name changed to Abraham, and circumcision instituted as the token of the confirmed covenant being 99 | 13 | Gen. 17:1,5 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. | 1855 |
| 2029 | Abraham promised Isaac in the following yearSarah is 90 at the promise | 0 | Gen. 18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. Gen 17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? | 1855 |
| Angels proceed further to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah | Gen. 18:20-21 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. | |||
| 2030 | Isaac Born, Abraham is 100 Start of Abraham's seed sojourning in a strange land 400 years | 1 | GEN 21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. GEN 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; | 1854 |
| Abraham is dwelling at Beersheba in the land of the Philistines when Isaac is born | GEN 21:32-34 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. | |||
| 2063 | This is speculative. Isaac's birth is clear, but when his sacrifice occurs is not, other than after it, Abraham receives word of Terah's death. It was after he planted a grove in Beersheba, and before he heard the news of Terah's death | 33 | Gen 22:1-2 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. | 1821 |
| 2065 | Abraham receives news from home about Milcah, which also ( we presume) includes information about Terah's death while at Beersheba in the land of the Philistines Terah dies at age 205 Abraham is 135, Sarah is 125, Isaac is 35. | 2 | Gen. 22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; | 1819 |
| 2067 | Sarah dies at age 127 after Abraham had moved to Kirjatharba or Hebron. This was Abraham removing into the Promised land following his living among the Philistines. | 2 | Gen. 23:1-2 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. | 1817 |
| 2069 | Isaac marries Rebecca at 40 | 2 | Gen. 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. | 1815 |
| 2089 | Isaac 60 at birth of Jacob, Abraham is 160 | 20 | Gen. 25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. | 1795 |
| 2105 | Death of Abraham at age 175 | 15 | Gen. 25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. | 1780 |
| 2149 | Shem ceases from among men at 600 | 44 | Gen. 11: 10-11 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. | 1736 |
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Ishmael dies at age 137 |
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Gen. 25:17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people. | 1725 |
| 2159 | Jacob goes to Padan Aram at age 71 (Isaac 131) |
7 | Gen 31:38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. (Based on Joseph being born in the last year in Padan Aram, and Jacob in Padan Aram 20 years) | 1718 |
| 2179 | Birth of Joseph, Jacob is 91 Isaac 151 |
20 | Based on Joseph being 39 when Jacob comes to Egypt at age 130 | 1698 |
| 2195 | Josephs Dreams at age 17 | 16 | Gen 37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. | 1682 |
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2208 |
Joseph stands before Pharaoh at age 30 |
13 | Gen. 41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. | 1669 |
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2209 |
Jacob and Esau Bury Isaac at Mamre Isaac Dies at 180 |
1 | Gen 35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. | 1668 |
| 2218 | Jacob is 130 when he goes to Egypt. This is 2nd year of famine following 7 years of plenty, or 9 years after Joseph is let out of prison: Joseph is 39 | 9 | Gen. 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. | 1659 |
| 2235 | Jacob dies in Egypt at age 147 | 17 | Gen. 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. | 1642 |
| 2242 | Invasion of the Hyksos: End of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, Start of the Second Intermediate Period | 7 | Exo 1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. | 1633 |
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2288 |
Joseph dies in Egypt at age 110 |
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Gen. 50:26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. |
1587 |
| 2310 | Birth of Moses 80 years before Exodus. 19 years after the death of Joseph | 22 |
The birth of Moses is determined by adding 430 years to the covenant given to Abraham while in Ur at age 30 to determine the Passover, and subtracting 80 years (Moses age) from the date of the Passover. |
1565 |
| 2349 | Moses begins to Judge Israel, but is rejected: flees to Midian. Start of 450 years of Judges | 39 | Acts 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. Acts 7:19-20 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot. And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. |
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Ahmose 1, Conquering Pharoah of the New Kingdom defeats the Hyksos and expels them from Egypt. End of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period. Start of Egypt's Third Kingdom |
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1532 BC: Ahmose I of Thebes defeats the Hyksos at Avaris and expels them from Egypt |
1535 |
| 2389 | The Exodus. The Pharoah End of 430 years after promise to Abraham to Passover Start of 480 of 1 Kings 6:1 Children of Israel come out of Egypt in the fourth generation, or 170 years. |
40 | 1KI 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. Gen. 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. |
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