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History of the Bible Timeline for Kids

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Want a history of the Bible timeline for your kids? You’ll love this Bible history timeline chart — the perfect book for every home library.


History of the Bible Timeline for Kids
The history of the Bible can be a little confusing, right? The Bible is mostly, but not entirely, chronological.

For instance, the prophets lived during the time of the kings. But which prophets lived during the reign of which kings?


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Bible History is Important

As our kids study the Bible, it is important for them to learn Bible history.

Knowing the history of the Bible–and having a Bible timeline–is important. As our kids read through Scripture, they eventually gain a sense of time and space through the grand story of the Bible. But, what if we want them to be able to put biblical history into a timeline sooner?


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The My Timeline Notebooking Journal gives your children a hands-on way to keep track of dates.
It’s the perfect companion to God’s Bible Timeline!


Studying Bible history helps our children:

  • Understand the history of the grand story of the Bible
  • Put together the different books of the Bible in time and space
  • See the hand of God in the lives of individuals and in the Bible
  • Knit together secular and biblical history
  • See how character and life decisions impact history through Bible characters and their impact on biblical history
  • Understand the gospel of Jesus Christ

History of the Bible Timeline for Kids

I want to thank Christian Focus Publications for sending me a copy of God’s Bible Timeline. This review is my own and is not sponsored.

Linda Finlayson writes fabulous resources on the Bible and Christian history for kids. Several years ago, she wrote God’s Timeline about the history of the Church (see my review here). It’s a book that should be in every home library.

Linda Finlayson’s new book, God’s Bible Timeline: The Big Book of Biblical History (Christian Focus Publications, 2020) is another wonderful history timeline book. Short Bible history overview articles are interspersed with colorful Bible history timeline charts.

A Bible timeline helps our kids:

  • Place important Bible history events, people, and movements in order relative to each other
  • Understand how many important biblical figures interacted and influenced each other
  • Understand God’s great plan for salvation
  • Learn about God’s story of his Chosen People, the Israelites
  • See God’s protection of his bride, the Church

History of the Bible Timeline for Kids
Linda Finlayson has written and designed a visually stunning Bible history timeline chart and book to help your children truly understand the overview of biblical history.

God’s Bible Timeline: The Big Book of Biblical History is just the reference book you need for your elementary and middle school students. Part read-aloud and part visual reference, this book will be one worth keeping on your shelves for the grandkids.


Wonderful Bible History by Linda Finlayson from Christian Focus Publications

I love all of these books–they are a fabulous addition to every home library!

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God’s Bible Timeline is divided into six sections of Bible history timeline:

  • Creation to the Promised Land
  • Living in the Promised Land
  • From One Kingdom to Two
  • Exile and Return
  • The Messiah
  • The Early Church

Each section of Biblical history has four double-paged spreads of a Bible history timeline for that period.

History of the Bible Timeline for Kids
The six Bible history sections begin with an overview of the period, and there are several articles interspersed with history timeline charts in each section.

The Biblical history articles cover topics including:

  • In the Beginning
  • Who are the Patriarchs? What about Job?
  • Maps and Diagrams of: Abraham’s World, Israel’s Wanderings, the Tabernacle, Cities of Refuge, Israel’s Neighbors, the Divided Kingdoms, Paul’s Journeys, and more
  • A Slave and a Prince
  • Long Lists of Names
  • Saul: The King who Got it Wrong
  • David: The Soldier/Musician King
  • Solomon the Builder
  • Solomon the Writer
  • What Makes a Prophet?
  • The Assyrians are Coming!
  • Down with the Assyrians and Up with the Babylonians
  • Those Persians
  • And more…

History of the Bible Timeline for Kids


More Great Christian History Resources

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History of the Bible Timeline for Kids
Your kids will finish God’s Bible Timeline with a clear view of how Scripture fits together in time and space to tell God’s story to his people.

History of the Bible Timeline for Kids
God’s Bible Timeline: The Big Book of Biblical History is a valuable resource that no family bookshelf should be without. I highly recommend it for your family as an heirloom you will use over and over again in discipling your kids. It will be one they will enjoy exploring on their own as well.


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