# [8] The Chronology from Adam to Noah to Abraham to David to Jesus, the Patriarchs

The bible uses a lunar calendar. In fact the biblical lunar calendar was the first calendar used by mankind. The lunar months are as follows...

Lunar Month | Solar Month
Nisan | March/April
Iyyar | April/May
Sivan | May/June
Tammuz | June/July
Ab | July/August
Elul | August/September
Tishri | September/October
Heshvan | October/November
Chislev | November/December
Tebbeth | December/January
Shebat | January/February
Adar | February/March

Here is a table of the chronology of some of the main characters, most of whom are in the maternal or paternal lines from Adam to Jesus of Matthew 1 and Luke 3. All of the dates in the table below are in Biblical Lunar Calendar (BLC) format and can be worked out from the scriptures. See U90 - U96. For more on these 3 see U506. We include this information in order for the reader to familiarise himself with these key players in our salvation.

Patriarch | Generations from God | Born | Died
Adam | 1 | 4027Tishri10 BC | 3993Nisan14 (sins) 3097 (dies)
Eve | n/a | 3997Heshvan22 | ??
Jared (who was Melchizedek - see I21. 2nd longest living human - 962 years) | 6 | 3567 | 2605
Enoch (did not die) | 7 | 3405 | 3040 transferred to heaven
Methuselah (longest living human - 969 years) | 8 | 3340 | 2371
Noah (Methuselah's grandson) | 10 | 2971 | 2021
Flood | n/a | 2371Heshvan17 flood starts | 2371Chislev27 rain ends
Abraham | 21 | 2018 | 1843
Isaac | 22 | 1919Tishri | 1739
Jacob | 23 | 1858 | 1711
Joseph (the son of Jacob) | n/a | 1768Sivan | 1658
King David | 34 (both lines) | 1076 (1st regnal year) | 1036
King Solomon | 35 (paternal line only) | 1036 (1st co-regnal year) | 997
Nathan | 35 (maternal line only) |  |
Joseph (the 'father' of Jesus) | 75 |  |
John the baptist | n/a | 2Nisan BC | 69 weeks after 29Nisan AD i.e. 30Ab AD
Jesus | 76 | 2Tishri BC | 33Nisan14, 33April1, Good Friday AD
Simeon | n/a | Before 2Tishri BC | After 2Tishri BC