From the first king in 1050 BC to Malachi around 430, five tracks on one year axis.
After the division in 930 the dates follow Thiele, cross-checked against Assyrian records at Qarqar (853), Jehu's tribute (841), the fall of Samaria (722) and Sennacherib (701). The united monarchy is counted back from 930 using the Bible's own figures — forty years each for Saul, David and Solomon — so all of it is approximate and drawn with a dashed edge. The Judah column changes office along the way: united kingdom, then southern kingdom, then a governor appointed by Babylon and Persia.
No dates are given here. From Ussher's 4004 BC to an old earth, people who believe the same things about Scripture reach different conclusions, and writing a number would sell one school's position as a fact.
If the date of the exodus moves, this whole segment moves with it, by about 180 years. BT601 13-2 teaches the argument without settling it, so the chart shows both. The gridlines are a century apart, coarser than the monarchy's, because the dates are.
firmly dated depends on a co-regency scholars differ
1050 BC
"Appoint for us a king to govern us" — 1 Sam 8:5
1010 BC
1 Sam 31
1003 BC
A city belonging to no tribe becomes the capital — 2 Sam 5:7
1000 BC
David dances ahead of it — 2 Sam 6
995 BC
"Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever" — 2 Sam 7:16
966 BC
"In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of Egypt" — 1 Kings 6:1, the verse behind the early-Exodus dating
959 BC
In seven years — 1 Kings 6:38
930 BC
Rehoboam's answer and Jeroboam's revolt — 1 Kings 12
925 BC
The temple and palace treasuries are plundered — 1 Kings 14:25
853 BC
Ahab joins a coalition against Assyria — an extrabiblical record fixes the date
841 BC
Depicted on Shalmaneser III's Black Obelisk
745 BC
Assyria rises again — the backdrop to the next two centuries
740 BC
"In the year that King Uzziah died" — Isa 6:1
734 BC
Aram and the northern kingdom attack Judah, and Ahaz calls in Assyria
722 BC
Two hundred years, nine dynasties, not one king who did right
701 BC
Hezekiah and Isaiah — recorded even in Assyrian sources, but the city does not fall
622 BC
2 Kings 22–23
612 BC
Nahum's prophecy is fulfilled
609 BC
The end of the reforms, and Judah's last twenty-three years
605 BC
Babylon defeats Egypt — Daniel is taken
597 BC
About ten thousand, including Jehoiachin and Ezekiel
586 BC
The Davidic line is cut off and the land keeps its rest
582 BC
Reprisal after Gedaliah's assassination — Jer 52:30
561 BC
Kings ends on this scene — 2 Kings 25:27. David's lamp had not gone out
539 BC
Belshazzar's feast and the writing on the wall — Dan 5
538 BC
They return after seventy years — Ezra 1, fulfilling Jer 29:10
520 BC
Spurred on by Haggai and Zechariah — Ezra 5:1
516 BC
Exactly seventy years after its destruction — Ezra 6:15
479 BC
The providence of a book that never names God
473 BC
Esther 9
458 BC
A scholar resolved to teach the Law — Ezra 7:10
445 BC
Fifty-two days — Neh 6:15
444 BC
The Law is read aloud at the Water Gate square — Neh 8