UNDERSTANDING DANIEL | BIBLE TIMELINE

0. Introduction

a) Timeline. This puts the Bible book into its historical setting. It lists the key events of each book and the date when they occurred.

b) The Book of Daniel.

1. Date: 612 B.C. 

a) Habakkuk becomes a prophet to Judah. 

2. Date: 609

a) Jehoiakim becomes king of Judah. 

3. Date: 605 

a) Daniel taken captive to Babylon. 

4. Date:  600 (?)

a) Daniel becomes Babylonian official; fiery furnance. 

5. Date: 597

a) Nebuchadnezzar takes more captives.

6. Date:  593

a) Ezekiel becomes a prophet to exiles.

7. Date: 586

a) Judah falls; Jerusalem destroyed; Jeremiah's ministry ends. 

8. Date: 562

a) Nebuchadnezzar dies.

9. Date: 553

a) Daniel's first vision. 

10. Date: 539

a) Babylon overthrown; Daniel thrown to lions. 

11. Date: 538

a) First exiles return to Judah.

12. Date: 536

a) Daniel's ministry ends.