From Genesis 1:1 outward

The Mechanics of Order

Everything God made carries order. This is a map of it: every concept the database has traced from Scripture, joined to every other, built in canonical order from the first verse to the last.

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The verses each part is anchored to

Ezra “had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach” (Ezra 7:10). Ask a question. Ezra searches the whole database and hands you something you can use.

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How firmly each chapter is dated

Every chapter of the Bible carries a date window. "Direct" means real dated events are tied to that chapter. The rest are estimates from nearby chapters or the book's known date.

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Acts 17: Paul in Athens Exodus 14: the Red Sea 2 Kings 25: Jerusalem falls Matthew 2: the Magi Isaiah 7: the sign of Immanuel Search: Babylon exile Search: Sabbath Search: iron smelting Time Machine: 586 BC Concept Web: God

What is inside

Pick any book and chapter to see its verse study, the Hebrew and Greek behind it, where readers divide, and the world around it.

Search verses, ideas, Hebrew and Greek words, events, people, places and technology all at once.

Search matches your exact words. Search by meaning lets you ask in plain English, like "where does Scripture talk about a tired soul finding rest", and finds passages that use different words for the same idea. Click a timeline result to open the full record.

Drag through 13.8 billion years, from the beginning of the universe to today. The cards below show what Scripture, the wider world and the tools people had were doing at the moment you choose.

Drag the gold marker anywhere along the bar, or press Play and watch history go by. The left side is deep time, squeezed together (labels there are years ago: B is billion, M is million, K is thousand); the right side is human history, spread out. Everything below updates as you move.

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Walk the story of Scripture one stop at a time, from creation to what is still ahead. Every stop comes from the timeline in the database, with the passage to read and a button to ask Ezra about it.

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Pick a year and see what was happening in every part of the world at once. The columns line up Israel and the Bible lands beside Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, Europe, Asia and the Americas.

A quiet column means the database has nothing recorded for that place in that window. It does not mean nothing happened. The database is much fuller for the Bible lands than for Asia and Africa, and it says so here instead of hiding it.

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See where the events happened. Choose a year and every place with something happening then lights up. Click a place to read what happened there.

Solid rings are places we can point to. Dashed rings are regions, so the ring marks the area rather than one spot. Places whose location is only traditional or debated say so when you click them. Eden and the land of Nod have no pin because Scripture gives no location a map can honor.

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Every idea in the database is joined to others. Pick one, or browse by field, principle or book, and watch how it connects across the Bible.

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Every dot is an idea the database has traced from Scripture; every line is a connection between two ideas. Point at a dot to read it, click to move to it. Gold is where you started.

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