The Strand Study Bible

SIMPLE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

BOOK’S AUTHOR

BOOK COVERS (2,368 yrs.) (146 yrs.) (1 mo.) (38 yrs.) (2 mos.) (52 yrs.) (325 yrs.) (10 yrs.)

BOOK FOLLOWS

MAIN CHARACTER

O.T. BOOK

BOOK TOOK PLACE

Genesis

From 4000-1632 BC

Moses

Abraham

Job

Around 1625 BC

Unknown

Gen 50:26

Job

Exodus Leviticus Numbers

From 1632-1486 BC

Moses Moses Moses Moses

Moses Moses Moses Moses Joshua Samson

1486 BC

From 1486-1448 BC

Deuteronomy

1448 BC

Joshua Judges

From 1447-1395 BC From 1425-1100 BC From c. 1275-1265 BC

Ruth

Judges 3:31

Ruth

Samuel, Saul, David

I Samuel II Samuel

From 1135-1050 BC

(85 yrs.)

From 1050-1010 BC

(40 yrs.)

King David

David/ Others

Psalms

From c. 1485-536 BC

(c. 924 yrs.)

David

From 1043-1010 BC (S/A I Sam 31 & II Sam 5-24)

I Chronicles 1-22 I Chronicles 23-29

1010 BC (S/A - I Ki 1-2)

I Kings Proverbs

From 1010-886 BC Around 1007 BC Around 1007 BC

(124 yrs.)

Solomon & Elijah

Solomon Solomon Solomon

I Ki 4:32 I Ki 4:32 I Ki 11:25

Solomon Solomon Solomon

Song of Solomon

Ecclesiastes

Around 970 BC

II Chronicles 1-20

From 1010 -c. 870 BC (I Ki 3-22)

II Kings

From 892-560 BC

(332 yrs.)

Elisha

II Chronicles 21-36 From 864-536 BC (S/A - II Ki 8-25) Joel Around 865 BC

Joel

II Ki 12:3

Judah Jonah Amos Hosea Isaiah Israel

Jonah Amos Hosea Isaiah Micah Nahum

Around 780 BC Around 765 BC

Jonah Amos Hosea Isaiah Micah Nahum

II Ki 14:25-27

II Ki 14:28

From around 765-723 BC From around 748-700 BC From around 747-704 BC

(42 years) (48 years) (43 years)

II Ki 14:28-17:5 II Ki 15:7-20:20 II Ki 15:35-20:11

Around 628 BC Around 628 BC From 627-561 BC Around 607 BC From 605-534 BC From 592-570 BC

II Kings 22:2 II Kings 22:2

Ninevah

Zephaniah Jeremiah Habakkuk

Zephaniah Jeremiah Habakkuk

Judah

(66 yrs.)

II Ki 22:2-25:30 II Kings 23:37 II Ki 24:1-25:30 II Ki 24:10-25:26

Jeremiah

Judah

Daniel Ezekiel

Daniel Ezekiel

(72 yrs.) (22 yrs.)

Jeremiah

Daniel

Lamentations

586 BC

Jeremiah Obadiah

II Kings 25:22 II Kings 25:26

Jerusalem

Obadiah Ezra 1-6 Haggai Zechariah Ezra 7-10 Nehemiah Esther

Around 585 BC From 536-515 BC

Edom

Ezra

(21 yrs.) (4 mos.) (2 yrs.) (10 yrs.)

Zerubbabel

520 BC

Haggai

Ezra 5:1 Ezra 5:1 Ezra 6:22

Haggai

From 520-518 BC From 483-473 BC From 458-457 BC From 445-432 BC Around 425 BC

Zechariah

Zechariah

Esther

Ezra

(1 yr.)

Ezra

Nehemiah (13 yrs.)

Nehemiah

Malachi

Malachi

Israel

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