Bible history
Period of the Patriarchs
Blackwood’s Comprehensive Aids to the Study of the Bible · Vol. I, p. 30
Begins on Vol. I, p. 30
From the Promise to the Exodus (420 Years).
| Before Christ | Events from the Promise to the Exodus |
|---|---|
| 1910 | Abraham 86 years old. Ishmael is born, Gen. xvi. |
| 1897 | Abraham 99 years old. The covenant renewed; circumcision ordained, Gen. xvii. The visit of the Three Angels, xviii. Destruction of Sodom, xix. Abraham journeys southward; second denial of Sarah, xx. (in Gerar). |
| 1896 | Isaac is born (in Beer-sheba), Gen. xxi. Long sojourn in the land of the Philistines, ver. 34. Abraham offers up Isaac, xxii. |
| 1859 | The time is not specified; the next event is the death of Sarah, aged 127 years, Abraham 137 years old, xxiii. |
| 1856 | Isaac marries Rebekah, Gen. xxv. 20. Abraham marries Keturah. |
| 1836 | Esau and Jacob born, Gen. xxv. Isaac removes to Gerar in consequence of a famine; denies his wife, xxvi. |
| 1821 | Abraham dies, aged 175 years, Gen. xxv. 1. |
| 1796 | Esau, 40 years old, marries, Gen. xxvi. 34. |
| 1773 | Ishmael dies, aged 137 years, Gen. xxv. 17. |
| 1759 | Isaac 137 years old. Blesses Jacob and Esau. Jacob flees to Padan-aram, Gen. xxvii., xxviii. Esau goes to Ishmael [to his family] and marries his daughter, xxviii. 6. |
| 1753 | Jacob, having served fourteen years, marries Leah and Rachel, Gen. xxix. 20-30. Leah bears Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah. Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali to Rachel. Zilpah bears Gad and Asher to Leah. |
| 1745 | Leah bears Issachar, Zebulon and Dinah. |
| 1743 | Rachel bears Joseph, Gen. xxx. 25. Jacob serves six years for his cattle, twenty years in all, xxxi. 41. |
| 1737 | The departure from Padan-Aram, Gen. xxxi. Jacob 97 years old. Wrestles with the angel, xxxii. Interview with Esau xxxiii. Comes to Succoth, and there builds a house, ver. 17 Hence to Shalem, a city of Shechem, "When he came from Padan-Aram, and pitched his tent before the city, and he bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent, of the children of Hamor . . . and he erected there an altar," xxxiii 17-20. |
| 1737 | Between this year and 1825 Jacob is settled at Hebron. |
| 1728 | Joseph's dreams, Gen. xxxvii. He is sold into Egypt. Judah separates from his brethren and marries Shuah, xxxviii. Birth of Er, Onan and Shelah, 1825-1822. Jacob removes from Hebron to Shechem; the slaughter of the Shechemites by Simeon and Levi, xxxiv. Jacob departs from Shechem and is commanded to remove to Bethel, xxxv. 1. |
| 1729 | Departure from Bethel to Ephrath; about this time Rachel dies in giving birth to Benjamin, Gen. xxxiv. 16-20. Jacob removes to Edar, thence to Hebron. |
| 1717 | Joseph has been some time in prison, Gen. xxxix.; interprets the dreams of the butler and baker, xl. (two years before Pharaoh's dream, xli. 1). |
| 1716 | Isaac dies, aged 180 years, Gen. xxxv. 28. |
| 1715 | Pharaoh's dream; Joseph advanced; seven years of plenty begin, Gen. xli. |
| 1708 | "Judah took a wife for Er his first-born" about this period, Gen. xxxviii. 6. Death of Er and Onan. Joseph's two sons born. |
| 1708 | Seven years of famine begin. |
| 1705 | First descent of the Patriarchs into Egypt, Gen. xlii. |
| 1704 | Second visit; Joseph discovers himself; Jacob and his household descend into Egypt, Gen. xlii.-xlv. |
| 1689 | Jacob dies, aged 147 years, Gen. xlvii. 28. |
| 1633 | Joseph dies, aged 110 years, Gen. l. 26. |
| 1571 | Moses born. |
| 1531 | Moses flees to Midian, where he remains forty years, Acts vii. 30. |