The ICB is divided up into a series of chronological charts. The originals have one line (at a minimum) for every year from ICB 0000 (-A3990 A.C.) to (ICB 490 (100 A.D.) ICB 0000 is the year before Adam’s life age count begins in the Masoretic Genesis 5 genealogical table. Each chart lists all events given in Scripture related to the time span it covers (except for Genesis One). Beginning with the Babylonian Captivity, the charts include other nation events.
However, since Scripture frequently leaves long time gaps between events when nothing is recorded, the charts posted here are a condensing of the original charts that contain a lot of blank lines. The charts will be posted on the ICB Menu as they are finished.
There are two versions for each chart up until the Babylonian Captivity. The Life Years Chart lists all events mentioned in Scripture related to the chart’s time span using only the life years of those involved. The Calendar Chart adds a column for the Western calendar dates based on the accepted synchronized dates between the Bible and the Western calendar.
Starting with the earliest synchronized event, the fifth year of Rechoboam, the chart assigns one Western calendar year to each ICB year in both time directions and lets the years fall where they may within the life/reign year dates of Biblical events.
However, the charts use the Astronomical Calendar (A.C.) with a year zero instead of the original Gregorian calendar, which did not have a year zero. Therefore, 925 B.C. (the earliest synchronized date) is the equivalent of -V924 A.C. in the chart.
The Calendar Chart helps to relate the events to a time scale understandable to most readers. After all, Abram leaving for Canaan in T075 Abr or ICB 2114 doesn’t mean anything in the Western chronology; Abram leaving for Canaan in -V1875 A.C. (Astronomical Calendar) gives the reader an idea of when Abram lived.
This link ICB Menu will take you to the charts and essays related to the Internal Chronology of the Bible.
Grace & peace to you,
Dori
The paternity of Jochebed (the mother of Aaron and Moses) and her blood relation to Amram her husband was another question needing research, as well as when she might fit into the timeline.
The conclusion that the 430 years refers to the time between Abram entering Canaan and the Exodus, and that the 400 years counts from the birth of Isaac to the Exodus, still leaves the Chronology at 307 years. Extending the chart to 430 years leaves a 123 year gap between the year Levi died and the Exodus. The next step is filling the gap, starting with plugging Moses’ and Aaron’s life dates into the Chronology.
Where to plug Levi into the ICB chart?
How old was Jacob when he first met Rachel?