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Events Affecting Israel |
Approx. Dates |
World Rulers |
Bible Books |
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Tiglath Pileser III (745-727 BC), King of Assyria |
2 Kg, 2 Chron, Isaiah
Hosea |
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Fall of Samaria, end of Northern kingdom) |
722 BC |
Shalmanezer V (727-722) |
2 Kg, 2 Chron, Isaiah, Micah |
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Hezekiah (716/715-687 BC) |
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Sargon II (722-705) |
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Sennacherib invades Palestine, threatens Jerusalem |
701 BC |
Sennacherib (705-681 BC) |
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Hezekiah's sickness |
ca. 700 BC |
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Manasseh (687-642 BC), wicked king |
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Esarhaddon (681-669 BC) |
2 Kg, 2 Chron, Nahum |
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Amon (642-640 BC), assisinated by his servants |
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Ashurbanipal (669-ca. 627 BC), last great king of Assyria) |
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Josiah (640-609 BC), "the boy king," a good king, brought many
religious reforms, finally killed by Pharoah Neco II |
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Nabopolassar (626-605 BC), first great king of Babylonia |
2 Kg, 2 Chron, Ezekiel, Jeremiah Zephaniah, Habakkuk |
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Fall of Nineveh, end of Assyrian dominance, beginning of
Babylonian dominance |
612 BC |
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Jehoiakim (609-598 BC), installed by Pharoah Neco II) |
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2 Kg, 2 Chron, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Daniel |
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Battle of Carchemish, Babylonians defeat Egyptian army, end of
Egyptian dominance. Daniel and others carried captive to Babylon. |
605 BC |
Nebuchadrezzar II (605-562 BC, referred to in the Bible as
Nebuchadnezzar), king of Babylonia |
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Jehoiakin (598-597) |
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Jerusalem sacked, Jehoiakin deposed, first deportation |
597 BC |
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Zedekiah (597-587 BC) |
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Jerusalm destroyed, second deportation, end of Southern kingdom. |
587 BC |
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Third and final deportation (Jeremiah 52:28-30) |
582 BC |
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Jehoiachin freed from prison |
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Evil-Merodach (562-560 BC) |
Daniel |
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Nabonidus (556-539 BC), as the last of the
Neo-Babylonian kings |
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His son Belshazzar served as co-regent with him (c. 553-539 BC) |
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Fall of Babylon |
339 BC |
Cyrus, King of Persia (539-530 BC) |
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Daniel's Prayer of Confession |
539 BC |
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Cyrus' Edict |
538 BC |
Ezra |
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First return under Sheshbazzar (Ezra 1:1), about 50,000 returned |
ca. 538 BC. |
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Construction of the Second Temple begun (Ezra 3:8) |
ca. 536/37 BC |
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Cambyses (530-522 BC) |
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Temple construction resumed (Ezra 4:24) |
520 BC |
Darius I Hystaspes (521-486 BC) |
Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah |
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Temple completed (Ezra 6:15) |
516 BC |
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Ezra |
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Esther is Queen of Persia at Susa |
ca. 470 BC |
Xerxes (Ahasuerus) (486-465/4 BC) |
Esther |
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Ezra and the second group of returnees go to Jerusalem |
458 BC |
Artaxerxes I, Longimanus (464-423 BC) |
Ezra |
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Fortification of Jerusalem stopped (Ezra 4:7-23) |
before 445 BC |
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Nehemiah comes to Jerusalem and restores the walls |
445 BC |
Nehemiah |
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Malachi prophesies |
420 BC |
Darius II, Nothus (423-404 BC) and later Persian kings |
Malachi |
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Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, rise of Macedonians and Greeks
(359-323 BC) |
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Ptolemy and Seleucid rule by Greeks (320-142 BC) |
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Antiochus forced hellenization, builds altar to Olympian Zeus on the temple mount |
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Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Syrian king) (175-168 BC) |
1 Maccabees |
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Maccabean revolt under Judas, Jonathan, and Simon Maccabeus frees Israel and establishes monarchy |
168-135 BC |
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1-2 Maccabees |
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John Hyrcanus as high priest and virtual king |
134-104 BC |
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Antipater, Herod the Great, etc. |
63 BC and later |
Roman domination begins under Pompey. See Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities and Jewish War for more information on these periods. |
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