From Eden to Eden
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
No. years. | b. c. | |
Creation of the world | 4004 | |
Abraham called to go into Canaan | 2083 | 1921 |
Covenant with Abraham, Genesis 17 | 60 | 1898 |
Isaac was born | 1 | 1897 |
Promises renewed to Isaac | 93 | 1804 |
Promises renewed to Jacob | 44 | 1760 |
Jacob went down into Egypt | 54 | 1706 |
Israelites left Egypt,—covenant at Horeb | 215 | 1491 |
They ask for a king,—Saul is anointed | 396 | 1095 |
David began to reign in Hebron | 40 | 1056 |
Promises made to David and his seed | 14 | 1042 |
Solomon built the temple | 37 | 1005 |
The kingdom divided,—Judah and Israel | 30 | 975 |
Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) entirely overthrown | 254 | 721 |
Manasseh, king of Judah; carried captive to Babylon | 44 | 677 |
Part of the vessels of temple, and some of the children of Judah, taken to Babylon, Daniel et al. | 70 | 606 |
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream interpreted | 3 | 603 |
Zedekiah taken to Babylon, temple and city destroyed | 15 | 588 |
(Solomon’s temple stood 417 years.) | ||
Daniel’s vision of chapter 7 | 48 | 540 |
Belshazzar slain; kingdom of the Medes and Persians | 3 | 538 |
Alexander the Grecian overthrew the Persians | 206 | 331 |
League between the Jews and the Romans | 170 | 161 |
a. d. | ||
Jesus preached the gospel of the kingdom, Mark 1 | 197 | 27 |
Roman Empire divided | 449 | 476 |
The Papacy established | 62 | 538 |
Note.—For the convenience of the reader, the dates in this table are according to the chronology of the English Bible, Authorized Version. Any variation in correction of these dates cannot be so great as to affect the results. As the full year cannot always be given, there will be found an apparent discrepancy, but there is none in fact. FEE 10.1