Time-line: Israelite History from Mt. Sinai to Babylonian Times
| Dates | Important Events / Figures | Outside Powers /Enemies | Outside Sources/ bibl. texts / theories | |
| Mid 13th century BCE: | Exodus and Mt. Sinai experience | Escape from Egyptian slavery | Mernephtah Stela: 1219 BCE: | |
| 13th - 12th century, or even later? | Conquest of the "Promised Land" | Struggle with indigenous Canaanite population | Jericho an abandoned site in 13 - 12th centuries BCE | |
| 13th - 11th century | Annual Covenant ceremonies at Shechem and Shiloh (Joshua 23-24; cf.: Judges 21:19 | Theories about
Amphictyony:
"confederacy united around worship at a central sanctuary" | ||
| c. 1200 - 1030 BCE | Period of Judges / Shophet | Canaanites | Judges 1-21 | |
| c. 1020 - | Israelite Kingdom | Philistines | ||
| c. 1020- 1000 | Saul (anointed king by Samuel) | 1 Sam 10 | ||
| c. 1000- 961 | David (capital: Jerusalem) | 2 Sam 2-21; 1 Kgs 2 | ||
| c. 961 -931/22 | Solomon (builds Temple) | 1 Kgs 3-11 | ||
| c. 931/22-731/22 BCE | Divided Kingdom | 1 Kgs 12 | ||
| Israel (north) | Judah
(south) |
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| c. 731/22 BCE | Assyria conquers Israel: "10 lost tribes" | Assyrians | 2 Kgs 17 | |
| 701 BCE | Assyrians besiege Jerusalem, Judah is able to withstand Assyrian assault | |||
| 621 BCE | "Discovery" of Book of
Law (Deuteronomy[?])
Josiah reforms Judah's religion |
2 Kgs 22-23
2 Chron 34-35 | ||
| c. 614/12 BCE | Assyrians defeated by | Babylonians | ||