Lineage

4,150 years, 157 lives, one story.

Every bar is a life, from Adam to the resurrection. See who lived at the same time, and how the generations connect.

How to explore

• Tap a bar to read about that person, with the scripture behind them and everyone alive alongside them.
• Click or tap an empty part of the timeline to see who was alive that year. Drag across it with a mouse, or along the date strip with a finger, to move through time.
• Search for a person, a year like 586 BC, or an era. ⌘K or Ctrl K jumps to search.
• Pinch, ⌘-scroll or Ctrl-scroll to zoom, or press + and −, and press Fit to see everything again. The arrow keys step through people or years, and Esc clears your selection.
• Every selection has its own address, so you can share what you're looking at.

Timeline and Family Tree

Timeline shows lifespans and reigns. Family Tree follows the generations, with the Messianic line running to Jesus and the other family lines branching off it. Zoom in for dates and descriptions. A line that stops at a bar ends within the story, and a line that fades means the people carry on after the last person named.

King and Priest

Family Tree has two lines from Jacob's sons. Judah's leads through David's throne to Jesus. Levi's runs through Aaron and the high priests. Jesus descended from Judah, not Levi (Hebrews 7:14), so the priestly line never joins his family. It reaches him by calling, which is why that link is dashed. Use the Royal, Priestly and Both buttons to follow each one.

How the dates work

Dates before the monarchy follow James Ussher's Annals of the World (1650). Divided-kingdom dates follow Edwin R. Thiele's The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (1983). These are particular chronologies, not a scholarly consensus.

Prophets' lifespans and some genealogical dates are estimates. Genesis records no deaths for Cain's line, so those bars fade out at the Flood. Scripture gives almost no dates for the priests, so theirs are estimates spaced by generation, and the lists may skip generations. For some kings, the reign stands in for an unknown birth and death. The judges are shown one after another, though many likely overlapped.

Sources

Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible, dedicated to the public domain. You can also read in the KJV, WEB and ASV, the Lutherbibel 1912 and Riveduta 1927, Bíblia Livre (CC BY 3.0 BR) and Versión Biblia Libre (CC BY-SA 4.0). Pick one from the chip at the top of the panel.

Credits

Made by jessedestroys.com. See also Atlas, every cross-reference in the Bible, and the source on GitHub.