1. Begin with Scripture
Each event links to its KJV passages. Summaries are local reading aids. Open the surrounding chapters to check the words, audience, and context.
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The story of Scripture,
one era at a time.
Explore the Bible from Genesis through Acts. Begin with the key events, choose an era for more detail, or compare the generations and kingdoms.
Find your place
Eight eras. One connected record.
Select an era to see its events, people, and Scripture passages.
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The Biblical record
Begin with the key events.
Read from top to bottom. Open an event for passages, people, places, and the next step. Entries spanning a period can overlap; the numbers guide reading rather than measure time.
Genesis 5 & 11
Lives that overlap.
Compare the recorded years of Adam’s line through Noah, then Shem’s line through Terah. Select a name to open its Scripture references.
Stated ages; calculated placement.
The horizontal positions add the ages in the KJV genealogies. Year 0 is the start of Adam’s life for this comparison, not a BC date or a date for the creation of the universe. Noah’s Flood marker is calculated from Genesis 5 and his age in Genesis 7:6. The scale assumes these named generations are consecutive.
On a small screen, swipe across the chart. The list below gives the same ages without scrolling.
Enoch’s bar ends when God took him (Genesis 5:24), rather than being labeled as a death. Methuselah’s endpoint does not establish how he died. Shem’s position uses Genesis 11:10 and Noah’s age at the Flood, rather than assuming all three sons in Genesis 5:32 were born together.
Why does the scale stop at Terah?
Genesis 11:26 names Abram, Nahor, and Haran together. Their order does not by itself fix Abram’s birth year. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob remain connected in the Patriarchs events, without attaching an unqualified birth date to this scale.
The divided kingdom
Two kingdoms. Connected accounts.
After Solomon, the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah have separate successions. Read the kings in each column, then use the Biblical cross-references to connect the two.
Succession is not a synchronized calendar.
Each column reads independently. Kings opposite one another in the layout did not necessarily reign together. The lists follow the principal successions; 1 Kings 16:21–22 also records Tibni’s rival claim against Omri. The listed lengths come from the passages; overlapping reigns and different ways of counting regnal years mean these figures should not simply be added to produce BC dates.
Where Scripture connects the reigns
These are explicit regnal relationships in the KJV. They are shown as written, without forcing them into a modern calendar.
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Prophets within the record
These prophetic books name the reigns in which their messages belong. Their ministries can span several kings.
Sources & method
Keep the text and the research in view.
2. Identify the calculation
The genealogy chart uses stated ages and shows its relative-year assumptions. The kings comparison cites regnal statements directly. Neither assigns an unsupported BC/AD date.
Explore the generations →3. Recognize historical research
Adams’s 1881 chart inspired the wider visual connections. Its Ussher-based dates and historical interpretations are a research source rather than Biblical text or official ministry teaching.
View Adams’s chart at David Rumsey ↗Biblical sequence is shown first. Judges, prophetic ministries, and some events in the Gospels overlap or have uncertain placement; specific notes identify those limits. The Gospels are not presented as a settled day-by-day harmony. Scripture references were checked against the public-domain KJV text. Edition differences in Biblical genealogies are outside this KJV-based comparison.