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Chronology of the End of the Monarchy, Exilic, Post-Exilic, and Intertestamental Periods
Events Affecting Israel |
Approx. Dates |
World Rulers |
Bible Books |
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 |
Hezekiah (716/715-687 BC) | Sargon II (722-705) | ||
Sennacherib invades Palestine, threatens Jerusalem | 701 BC | Sennacherib (705-681 BC) | |
Hezekiah's sickness | ca. 700 BC | ||
Manasseh (687-642 BC), wicked king | Esarhaddon (681-669 BC) | 2 Kg, 2 Chron, Nahum | |
Amon (642-640 BC), assisinated by his servants | Ashurbanipal (669-ca. 627 BC), last great king of Assyria) | ||
Josiah (640-609 BC), "the boy king," a good king, brought many religious reforms, finally killed by Pharoah Neco II | Nabopolassar (626-605 BC), first great king of Babylonia | 2 Kg, 2 Chron, Ezekiel, Jeremiah Zephaniah, Habakkuk | |
Fall of Nineveh, end of Assyrian dominance, beginning of Babylonian dominance | 612 BC | ||
Jehoiakim (609-598 BC), installed by Pharoah Neco II) | 2 Kg, 2 Chron, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Daniel | ||
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 | |
Jehoiakin (598-597) | |||
Jerusalem sacked, Jehoiakin deposed, first deportation | 597 BC | ||
Zedekiah (597-587 BC) | |||
Jerusalm destroyed, second deportation, end of Southern kingdom. | 587 BC | ||
Third and final deportation (Jeremiah 52:28-30) | 582 BC | ||
Jehoiachin freed from prison | Evil-Merodach (562-560 BC) | Daniel | |
Nabonidus (556-539 BC), as the last of the Neo-Babylonian kings | |||
His son Belshazzar served as co-regent with him (c. 553-539 BC) | |||
Fall of Babylon | 339 BC | Cyrus, King of Persia (539-530 BC) | |
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) | ||
Temple construction resumed (Ezra 4:24) |
520 BC |
Darius I Hystaspes (521-486 BC) |
Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah |
Temple completed (Ezra 6:15) |
516 BC |
Ezra |
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Esther is Queen of Persia at Susa |
ca. 470 BC |
Xerxes (Ahasuerus) (486-465/4 BC) | Esther |
Ezra and the second group of returnees go to Jerusalem |
458 BC |
Artaxerxes I, Longimanus (464-423 BC) |
Ezra |
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 | |
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) | |||
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 |
Maccabean revolt under Judas, Jonathan, and Simon Maccabeus frees Israel and establishes monarchy |
168-135 BC |
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. |
Based on chronologies in John N. Oswalt, "Chronology of the Old Testament," ISBE 1:673-685 and Roy A. Stewart and Robert J. Wyatt, "Intertestamental Period," ISBE 2:874-878.
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