As I said, everyone pretty much agrees, plus or minus a few hundred years, back to the time of Abram’s call from Ur of the Chaldees. But before that, various chronologies diverge wildly. The Bible and a few other historical documents tell the story way back to Creation, but a lot is left out, yes, in the Biblical account, too. Every chronology extending before the Flood is really only a series of educated guesses. I freely admit, I made thousands of guesses in my chronology, working with it like putty in my hands to try to make it fit the Bible story and still line up with all the bits and pieces of historical and archaeological data we have. Be wary of those who tell you that their chronology of ancient history is strictly based on “science” and therefore is an “established fact.” That is a lie, right off the top. It is clear that science is their god, because true science does not settle on established facts without observation and verification, which is impossible before the Flood.

So if someone will lie to you about that, you can be quite assured they are lying about a lot of other things too. Even a secular science book, if the authors are honest, will never say, “The earth is 4.5 billion years old,” because that’s a flat out lie and they know it. An honest scientist might say something like, “We think the earth may be as old as 4.5 billion years, and this is why we think that, and these are the assumptions we made to get there… However, other scientists believe in a much younger earth, and these are some of the reasons they give…” Any “scientist” who will not admit his assumptions (ie, his “faith”) should have no credibility, because every guess at ancient history involves assumptions. And any “scientist” who gets dogmatic about his theories and tries to squelch debate is not a real scientist at all, because a real scientist welcomes debate whenever data exists that does not fit his hypothesis. And lots of data does not fit the evolutionary hypothesis. 

Every secular historical account has errors - some of them intentional! Kings often boasted of their accomplishments beyond all measure, and Pharaohs at times went to great lengths to eradicate the monuments, or even the very existence, of their predecessors. Rulers often deliberately tried to hide the evidence because they wanted history to look at them more favorably. Decisive battles at times ended with wildly differing accounts, depending on the perspectives of the opposing sides. At times two or more kings ruled simultaneously at different places in the country, and at times there was no king at all. Dating systems were sometimes different, even between close nations like Israel and Judah.

Tying a chronology to celestial events like an eclipse, a supernova, or a special alignment of the planets presumes an orderly solar system like we have now, which is a bad assumption during the catastrophic era. Names changed, not just the names of towns and local areas but also names of people and nations. Entire people groups migrated - look at all the different areas occupied by the Amalekites, for example. Some people groups were wiped out, or merged with other groups. The Philistines at the time of King Saul were a combination of at least four distinct people groups, including the Anakim.

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