About View.Bible

What is View.Bible?

Each map or chart here has its own page, with a picture, a short description and a PDF to print or keep, and each gives the chapter and verse for what it shows. The Library lists them all in the order of the books of the Bible, and more are added as they are finished.

The home page is a timeline of the Bible: the descendants of Adam, the events of Scripture, the books of the Bible, and every map and chart at its place in time. Click a person or an event and a panel opens with what Scripture says of them, with the verses. Those facts come from the Bible Inventory, the site’s own record of the people, places and events of the Bible, each with the verses it rests on.

Who makes it?

View.Bible is the work of Michael A. Thompson, begun in September 2026 and meant to grow for a lifetime. The site is small and quiet on purpose, so that nothing competes with the maps and charts.

What does “free” mean here?

No fee, no account and no advertising, and permission to reuse. Nothing here is for sale, and nothing asks for your name or address.

May I print, copy or share them?

Yes. The maps, charts, timeline and Bible Inventory are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, print, share and adapt them, for any purpose, without asking. The one condition is credit: name View.Bible, link to the license, and say if you made changes.

Suggested credit: From View.Bible (https://view.bible/), CC BY 4.0.

A few things inside the documents belong to others and keep their own terms: the wording of the New King James Version, the Copernicus relief and the OpenBible.info place data. Their notices are on the Sources page, word for word. Names, ages and places, and the years reckoned from them, are free for anyone to use.

For a class handout, a line on the copy such as “From View.Bible (view.bible), CC BY 4.0” is all the credit needed.

How are the facts checked?

Everything starts from Scripture, with names and spellings as in the New King James Version. The Bible Inventory is written book by book in the order of the Bible. Each fact is entered from a reading of the passage, read again against every verse it cites, and tested against every other date and age in the record before it is approved. Where a year is worked out rather than stated, the timeline’s panel marks it with a dagger (†) and shows the working; where Scripture can be read more than one way, the panel gives the other readings.

The years on the timeline are a reckoning, not a statement of Scripture: they add up the ages and spans of years Scripture gives, counting from Creation as Archbishop Ussher did in his Annals of the World, which place Creation in 4004 BC and serve as a check. Other reckonings differ: many study Bibles, counting back from Solomon by 1 Kings 6:1, place the Exodus about 1446 BC, where Ussher has 1491 BC. Where a map places an ancient town, it follows the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding data and its best estimate for uncertain sites. Every document carries its version and date.

Nothing here asks to be taken on trust: every fact carries its verses, so that you can check it in your own Bible.

What happens when a mistake is found?

There will be mistakes. When one is found, the map or chart is corrected and issued again with a new version number and date, shown on its page and on the sheet itself.