Dates of Events Recorded in
the Book of Genesis, According to Hales, Ussher, and Keil.
B.C. = |
Before
Christ |
Y.W. = |
Year of the World |
Y.C. = |
Year after the
immigration into Canaan. |
Ussher,
B.C. |
Ussher.
Y.W. |
Event |
Hales,
B.C. |
Hales,
Y.W. |
Keil,
Y.C. |
4004 |
1 |
The Creation |
5411 |
1 |
|
3874 |
130 |
Birth of Seth |
5181 |
230 |
|
3769 |
235 |
Birth of Enos |
4976 |
435 |
|
3679 |
325 |
Birth of Cainan |
4786 |
625 |
|
3609 |
395 |
Birth of Mahaleel |
4616 |
795 |
|
3074 |
930 |
Death of Adam |
4481 |
930 |
|
3544 |
460 |
Birth of Jared |
4451 |
960 |
|
3382 |
622 |
Birth of Enoch |
4289 |
1122 |
|
3317 |
687 |
Birth of Methuselah |
4124 |
1287 |
|
3130 |
874 |
Birth of Lamech |
3937 |
1474 |
|
3017 |
987 |
Translation of Enoch |
3914 |
1487 |
|
2948 |
1056 |
Birth of Noah |
3755 |
1656 |
|
2348 |
1656 |
Deluge |
3155 |
2256 |
|
2346 |
1658 |
Birth of Arphaxad |
3153 |
2258 |
|
2311 |
1693 |
Birth of Salah |
3018 |
2393 |
|
2281 |
1723 |
Birth of Heber |
2888 |
2523 |
|
1998 |
2006 |
Death of Noah |
2805 |
2606 |
|
2247 |
1757 |
Birth of Pelag |
2754 |
2657 |
|
2233 |
1771 |
Confusion of Tongues |
2554 |
2857 |
|
2217 |
1787 |
Birth of Reu |
2624 |
2787 |
|
2185 |
1819 |
Birth of Serug |
2492 |
2919 |
|
2155 |
1849 |
Birth of Nahor |
2362 |
3049 |
|
2126 |
1878 |
Birth of Terah |
2283 |
3128 |
|
1998 |
2006 |
Death of Noah |
1996 |
2008 |
|
|
|
Birth of Abram |
2153 |
3258 |
|
1921 |
2083 |
Abram in Canaan |
2078 |
3333 |
1 |
1910 |
2094 |
Birth of Ismael |
2067 |
3344 |
11 |
|
|
Beg. Of Circumcision |
|
|
24 |
1896 |
2108 |
Birth of Isaac |
2053 |
3358 |
25 |
|
|
Death of Sarah |
|
|
62 |
1856 |
2148 |
Marriage of Isaac |
2013 |
3398 |
65 |
1836 |
2168 |
Birth of Esau & Jacob |
1993 |
3418 |
85 |
|
|
Death of Abraham |
|
|
100 |
|
|
Esau's Marriage |
|
|
125 |
|
|
Death of Ishmael |
1916 |
3495 |
148 |
1760 |
|
Jacob to Padan Aram |
|
|
162 |
|
|
Jacob's Marriage |
|
|
169 |
1745 |
2259 |
Birth of Joseph |
1902 |
3509 |
176 |
1739 |
2265 |
Jacob's to Canaan |
1896 |
3515 |
182 |
1732 |
2272 |
Jacob's at Hebron |
1889 |
3522 |
192 |
1728 |
2276 |
Joseph sold into Egypt |
1885 |
3526 |
193 |
1716 |
2288 |
Death of Isaac |
1873 |
3538 |
205 |
1715 |
2289 |
Joseph Gov. of Egypt |
1872 |
3539 |
206 |
1706 |
2298 |
Jacob goes to Egypt |
1863 |
3548 |
215 |
1689 |
2315 |
Death of Jacob |
1846 |
3565 |
232 |
1635 |
2369 |
Death of Joseph |
1792 |
3619 |
286 |
The reader will find in ch. 10, some
explanations regarding the systems of Chronology by Ussher and
Hales. Hales professes to follow the text of the Greek or LXX
translation of the Old Testament, correcting it by the Jewish
historian Josephus, whose dates, however, are often manifestly very
inaccurate. Ussher professes to follow the Hebrew text. The modern
Jewish chronology places the birth of Isaac, when Abraham was one
hundred years old, in the year of the world 2048. With this latter
very nearly agrees the chronology adopted by a celebrated modern
German commentator, Professor Keil, who places it only two years
earlier, viz. in 2046. We have given in the last column, according
to the chronology of Keil, the succession of events after the
migration of Abram into Canaan. Keil places the latter event in the
year of the world 2021, and before Christ 2137. From this the reader
will easily be able to calculate all the other dates according to
the chronology of Keil, which on the whole seems to us the most
reliable. He bases it on the following data: according to 1 Kings
6:1, the Temple of Solomon was built 480 years after the Exodus,
while the deportation of Israel into Babylon took place 406 years
after the building of the Temple, that is, in all, 886 years after
the Exodus. But as the commencement of the Exile must have fallen in
the year 606 before Christ, we have the year 1492 before Christ (or
2666 after the Creation) as that of the Exodus. The year 606 before
Christ is fixed as that of the commencement of the Babylonish exile,
because it ended after 70 years, in the first year of the sole reign
of Cyrus, which we know to have been the year 536 before Christ. |