CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
The following dates are based upon the latest researches, but are to be regarded as provisional. Some Biblical dates are added for comparison, those marked with an asterisk follow the margin of the Authorised Version.
FIRST BABYLONIAN DYNASTY (the
'Khammurabi age') between . . . . . . . . . . . . 2060-1800 B.C.
TWELFTH EGYPTIAN DYNASTY, began about . . . . . . . 2000.
Abram enters Canaan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1921*.
Descent of Jacob into Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . 1706*.
Hyksos invasion of Egypt, about . . . . . . . . . . 1680.
EIGHTEENTH EGYPTIAN DYNASTY . . . . . . . . . . . . 1580-1350.
Thutmose III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1500.
Exodus of Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1491*.
Invasion of Palestine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451*.
Amenhotep III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1411.
Amenhotep IV. (Ikhnaton) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1375.
NINETEENTH EGYPTIAN DYNASTY . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350-1200.
Sety I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320.
Ramses II. (? Pharaoh of the oppression,
Exod. i. 11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310.
Merneptah (? Pharaoh of the Exodus;
defeats Israel in Palestine) . . . . . . . . . . . 1244.
TWENTIETH EGYPTIAN DYNASTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200-1090.
Ramses III. (first mention of Philistines) . . . . . 1200-1169.
Ramses XII. (? age of Eli) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118.
Tiglath-pileser I., about . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100.
Saul, King of Israel (? 1025) . . . . . . . . . . . 1095*.
David, King of Judah (? 1010) . . . . . . . . . . . 1056*.
Solomon, about . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970.