Living Bible Timeline · Jubilee chronology
The Jubilee Timeline
From the division of the land to Jesus’s death and resurrection
Twenty-nine separate fiftieth-year Jubilees displayed in one continuous register, with the principal events that occurred between them.
The land is conquered and divided
The agricultural count begins after the conquest and wider division of the land. Nisan years 55 through 103 complete forty-nine counted land years; Nisan 104 is hallowed as the first fiftieth year.
Joshua 11:23; 18:1–10; Leviticus 25:8–10 · KJV
| Creation yearTishriSept./Oct. | Nisan yearNisanMarch/April | BC / ADDec./Jan. | JubileeTishri 10Trumpet Sounds | Principal events since the previous Jubilee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2550 | 104 | 1373/1372 BC | 1stJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 1st Jubilee From the completed conquest and division of the land, the count begins at Nisan 55. Joshua’s generation passes, Israel turns away, Cushan-rishathaim oppresses the land, and Othniel delivers Israel before the first Jubilee. |
| 2600 | 154 | 1323/1322 BC | 2ndJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 2nd Jubilee Othniel’s forty years of rest continue. Eglon of Moab begins his eighteen-year oppression as the second Jubilee approaches. |
| 2650 | 204 | 1273/1272 BC | 3rdJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 3rd Jubilee Ehud delivers Israel from Eglon, and the land enters the long rest recorded in Judges 3:30. |
| 2700 | 254 | 1223/1222 BC | 4thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 4th Jubilee The years of rest continue; Shamgar delivers Israel, Jabin’s oppression begins, and Deborah and Barak arise near the fourth Jubilee. |
| 2750 | 304 | 1173/1172 BC | 5thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 5th Jubilee Deborah and Barak deliver Israel, the land rests forty years, Midian oppresses Israel seven years, and Gideon is called. |
| 2800 | 354 | 1123/1122 BC | 6thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 6th Jubilee Gideon’s deliverance is followed by forty years of quiet. Abimelech rules at Shechem, Tola judges Israel, and the Philistine oppression begins. |
| 2850 | 404 | 1073/1072 BC | 7thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 7th Jubilee Tola and Jair judge; Samson’s judgeship unfolds during Philistine oppression; Ammon oppresses east of Jordan; Jephthah and Ibzan arise. |
| 2900 | 454 | 1023/1022 BC | 8thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 8th Jubilee Elon, Abdon, Eli, and Samuel belong to this interval. The Ark is taken and returned, Saul becomes king, David begins to reign, and the Ark comes to Jerusalem. |
| 2950 | 504 | 973/972 BC | 9thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 9th Jubilee David’s reign continues; Solomon is made king; the Temple begins in the 480th year and is completed seven years later. |
| 3000 | 554 | 923/922 BC | 10thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 10th Jubilee Solomon’s reign ends, the kingdom divides under Rehoboam and Jeroboam, and the two royal lines begin to unfold. |
| 3050 | 604 | 873/872 BC | 11thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 11th Jubilee The divided kingdoms continue through Baasha, Omri, Ahab, Jehoshaphat, and the prophetic ministries surrounding their reigns. |
| 3100 | 654 | 823/822 BC | 12thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 12th Jubilee Jehu destroys the house of Ahab; Athaliah rules Judah; Joash, Jehoahaz, Jehoash, and Amaziah continue the royal chronology. |
| 3150 | 704 | 773/772 BC | 13thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 13th Jubilee Jeroboam II and Uzziah reign; Zechariah, Shallum, and Menahem carry the northern kingdom toward its final decades. |
| 3200 | 754 | 723/722 BC | 14thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 14th Jubilee Pekahiah, Pekah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hoshea reign while Assyrian pressure closes around Israel. |
| 3250 | 804 | 673/672 BC | 15thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 15th Jubilee Samaria falls and Israel is carried to Assyria. Hezekiah reigns in Judah, Jerusalem is delivered from Sennacherib, and Manasseh begins his long reign. |
| 3300 | 854 | 623/622 BC | 16thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 16th Jubilee Manasseh and Amon are followed by Josiah. The book of the law is found, and Josiah’s reforms restore covenant obedience in Judah. |
| 3350 | 904 | 573/572 BC | 17thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 17th Jubilee Josiah dies; Babylon defeats Egypt at Carchemish; Jehoiachin is carried away; Zedekiah rebels; Jerusalem and the Temple fall. Ezekiel’s restored-Temple vision arrives in the seventeenth Jubilee. |
| 3400 | 954 | 523/522 BC | 18thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 18th Jubilee Ezekiel’s final dated prophecy, Jehoiachin’s release, Babylon’s fall, Cyrus’s decree, the return, and the altar and Temple foundation carry the chronology toward the eighteenth Jubilee. |
| 3450 | 1004 | 473/472 BC | 19thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 19th Jubilee Haggai and Zechariah call the returned people back to the work; the second Temple is completed; Esther becomes queen; Haman’s plot fails and Purim begins near the nineteenth Jubilee. |
| 3500 | 1054 | 423/422 BC | 20thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 20th Jubilee Artaxerxes I accedes; Ezra arrives in his seventh year; Nehemiah receives authority in his twentieth year; Jerusalem’s wall is completed. |
| 3550 | 1104 | 373/372 BC | 21stJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 21st Jubilee Darius II and Artaxerxes II continue the Persian Empire while the Jubilee count proceeds through otherwise sparsely dated biblical years. |
| 3600 | 1154 | 323/322 BC | 22ndJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 22nd Jubilee The final Persian kings reign. Alexander becomes king, overthrows Persia, and dies in Babylon as the twenty-second Jubilee arrives. |
| 3650 | 1204 | 273/272 BC | 23rdJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 23rd Jubilee Alexander’s successors divide the empire; the Seleucid era begins; Ptolemy and Seleucus take royal titles; Judea comes under Ptolemaic rule. |
| 3700 | 1254 | 223/222 BC | 24thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 24th Jubilee Ptolemaic and Seleucid rulers succeed one another on either side of Judea, and Antiochus III begins to reign near the twenty-fourth Jubilee. |
| 3750 | 1304 | 173/172 BC | 25thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 25th Jubilee Antiochus III gains Judea and is later defeated by Rome. Seleucus IV, Ptolemy VI, and Antiochus IV lead into the twenty-fifth Jubilee. |
| 3800 | 1354 | 123/122 BC | 26thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 26th Jubilee Antiochus IV plunders and profanes the Temple; Mattathias begins the revolt; Judas rededicates the Temple; Jonathan and Simon lead; Judean independence is recognized; John Hyrcanus succeeds Simon. |
| 3850 | 1404 | 73/72 BC | 27thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 27th Jubilee Hasmonean Judea continues through John Hyrcanus, Aristobulus I, Alexander Jannaeus, and Salome Alexandra while the Seleucid claimants weaken. |
| 3900 | 1454 | 23/22 BC | 28thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 28th Jubilee Pompey captures Jerusalem and Roman control begins. Caesar confirms Hyrcanus and Antipater; Herod rises, secures Jerusalem, and Augustus becomes Rome’s ruler. |
| 3950 | 1504 | AD 28/29 | 29thJubilee | Events During the Count Toward the 29th Jubilee Herod enlarges the Temple. John and Jesus are born; Jesus returns from Egypt to Nazareth, attends Passover at twelve, and grows toward the ministry. Tiberius succeeds Augustus and Pilate governs Judea. At and after the twenty-ninth Jubilee John begins preaching in Tiberius’s fifteenth year. Jesus is baptized, tempted forty days, and begins his public ministry. The first of John’s three named ministry Passovers falls within Nisan 1504. The sequence continues through the final Passover in CY 3953, when Messiah is cut off: Jesus is crucified, dies, and is laid in the sepulchre. On the first day of the week, Jesus rises from the dead. Luke 3:1–3; Matthew 3:13–4:17; John 2:13; 6:4; 11:55–12:1; 19:16–42; 20:1–18; Daniel 9:26 · KJV |
Each row shows the Creation-year line on which that Jubilee begins, matching the marker on the Original Timeline. The Nisan and BC/AD entries are the corresponding dates on that same Creation-year line.
Leviticus supplies the separate fiftieth-year rule. The established Jubilee chronology of Living Bible Timeline supplies the continuous Creation-year placement. KJV events, historical synchronisms, and working historical placements remain distinguishable by their stated sources.
The summaries identify principal events between Jubilee markers; they are not claims that Scripture calls every listed event a Jubilee fulfillment. Maccabees, Josephus, Persian, Greek, and Roman chronology remain historical witnesses rather than KJV Scripture.