There is very little discernable and orderly material here, but I hope that this feeds a curiousity.  Any knowledge that can be obtained on the timelines of Jersusalem, Israel, and the ancient world help immensely in enjoying the Old Testament.  The message contained in the Hebrew Scriptures is apparent enough to be useful to anyone who has the will to try, but vast enough to be a life's work unto itself.  I highly recommend trying to understand the big picture of God's chosen people.  Very few things in my studies have been more helpful in gaining a wider appreciation for the fullness of our Lord's character.
3rd Millennium BC - Earliest Settling was a Canaanite Urban Settlement

“Salem” had Melchizedek as king – he was a priest of God Most High (Gen 14:18)
-Abram was blessed by Melchizedek shortly beefore God ‘prophesied’ over his offspring

18th Century BC – Appearing of a massive wall

1600-1200 BC
-Few archeological findings
-Mentioning of Jerusalem in 14th Century BC  Egyptian archive
-Defeat of Adonitzedek (and the 5 Amorite kiing coalition) (Josh 10) but not conquest
-The tribe of Judah destroyed Jerusalem, butt the Benjaminites did not dislodge the Jebusites.  They continued to live there.  (Judges 1:1-8)
-Jebusite city in Judges 19:10-12 and 1 Chr  11:4
Note: Amorites and Jebusites make up the Canaanites
-David brought the head of Goliath thither ((1 Sam 17:54)
-David reigned in Hebron 7.5 years
-David conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusitees (2 Sam 5:5-9, 1 Chr 11:4-8)
	
13th-12th BC - Creation of terraces for the leveling of the citadel.
-David built an altar on a threshing floor ((2 Sam 24:15-25)
-Solomon built the temple (Deut 12:5, 12:14,, 14:23, 16:11-16, Ps 122)
	
End of 2nd Millennium BC
“Warrens Shaft” -Water system enabled drawing of water from Gihon spring from inside the walls.  Probably functioning before the David’s conquest in 2 Sam 5:8.

10th Century BC - Terraces capped assumedly to support David’s fortress of Zion

8th Century BC
-Expansion during Hezekiah to the hill on thhe west
-Drainage formed into the Kidron Valley
-Some structures formed outside the walls, bbut abandoned
-Assyrian siege of 701 BC (2 Kings 18-19)

8th-7th Century BC – Period of prosperity

587-586 BC Babylonian utter destruction of the city
-2 Kings 25:8-10, Jeremiah 39:8, 2 Chroniclees 36:18-19
-Evidenced by large ash and rubble layer

6th Century BC
-Ezra rebuilt the temple
-Jewish resettlement of Jerusalem
-Possibly a different path for the wall on tthe NE slope
-Persian period

Hellenistic and Roman periods the center moved west and the old city remains uninhabited outside the present walls

70 AD – The city was again completely destroyed by Titus