The World History Chart

I designed a graphical chart detailing various historical events as seen from a Biblically conservative viewpoint.

1. Biblical Philosophy used when making the Chart
   
   
2. The Assumptions used in making the Chart
   
   
3. Chart 1
   
   
4. Chart 2
   
   
5. Combined Chart
   
   
6. Combined Chart with no dates
   
   

Below are special formats for printing.


1. Chart 1 (pdf)
   
   
2. Chart 1 (300dpi jpeg 0.8MB)
   
   
3. Combined Chart (pdf)
   
   
4. Combined Chart (300dpi jpeg 1.5MB)
   
   
5. Combined Chart with no dates (pdf)
   
   
6. Combined Chart with no dates (300dpi jpeg 2MB)
   
   

This is a very good question: How could I have Terah as having Abram when he was 130 rather than 70 as verse 26 seems to indicate:

26. Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Genesis 11:26

The verse almost makes it sound as if all three sons were born in the same year, as if they were triplets. But they were not triplets. They were not even born in the same year.

It turns out that Abram was not the first born. Haran was the eldest son of Terah. Abram was the youngest son and he was born much later!

So, why is Abram listed first. It is because he is the most important to those reading the book of Genesis. He is the son who the promise will come from.

To help confirm this lets look at Genesis 11:32 -12:4

32. So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

1. Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you.
2. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
3. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
4. So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Genesis 11:32-12:4

This Scripture says that Terah dies when he is 205 years old. Then God tells Abram to leave for a country he has never seen before. So Abram leaves. When he leaves he is 75 years old!

If Abram was born when Terah was 70, as Genesis 11:26 seems to indicate, then Abram would then be 135 years old when Terah, his father, dies at 205 years.

But this idea does not agree with verse 4 which says Abram was 75 years old! So, if we take the hint from Genesis 12:4 and realize that Abram was actually 75 when his 205 year old father dies, that means that Terah was really 130 years old when Abram was born.

PS - My Computer Bible has the free Smith Bible commentary. Here is what it says about verse 26:

Verse 26. [And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.] Haran was certainly the eldest son of Terah, and he appears to have been born when Terah was about seventy years of age, and his birth was followed in successive periods with those of Nahor his second, and Abram his youngest son. Many have been greatly puzzled with the account here, supposing because Abram is mentioned first, that therefore he was the eldest son of Terah: but he is only put first by way of dignity. An in stance of this we have already seen, Ge 5:32, where Noah is represented as having Shem, Ham, and Japheth in this order of succession; whereas it is evident from other scriptures that Shem was the youngest son, who for dignity is named first, as Abram is here; and Japheth the eldest, named last, as Haran is here. Terah died two hundred and five years old, Ge 11:32; then Abram departed from Haran when seventy-five years old, Ge 12:4; therefore Abram was born, not when his father Terah was seventy, but when he was one hundred and thirty.

When any case of dignity or pre-eminence is to be marked, then even the youngest son is set before all the rest, though contrary to the usage of the Scriptures in other cases. Hence we find Shem, the youngest son of Noah, always mentioned first; Moses is mentioned before his elder brother Aaron; and Abram before his two elder brethren Haran and Nahor. These observations are sufficient to remove all difficulty from this place.