Saul
David
is born.
1028
Samuel
David;
Philistine
Elah;
David
Goliath.
1020
Samuel
dies.
1011
Philistine
Gilboa;
Saul
Jonathan
David
becomes king of Judah.
1004
David
Philistine
defeated.
991
David's
Bathsheba;
Solomon
born (990).
970
Adonijah's
Solomon
David
dies.
963
Temple
tabernacle)
950
Solomon
begins decline. He has a lust for power, riches and women. As
a political strategy, he married daughters of foreign kings.
931
Solomon's Rehoboam,
Solomon]
loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke…"
931
Jeroboam.
?
Jeroboam
built his own temples and set up two golden calves.
?
Elijah.
Tiglath-Pileser III Assyria
743
Menahem
Pul
3 million shekels of silver to keep him from attacking Israel
733
Pekah
Syria
Ahaz
Pul
Assyria
Pul
Syrian
Damascus.
Assyria.
729
Hezekiah.
722
Shalmaneser V
Assyria,
Hoshea
Egypt
Samaria.
701
Sennacherib
Assyria
Jerusalem.
Hezekiah
Assyrian
Nineveh.
695
Manasseh,
Jerusalem
Manasseh
Assyrian
Assyrian
gods.
640
Passover
Josiah
633
Assyrian
empire thrown into civil war as twin sons battle for the throne.
Josiah
Assyria.
626
Babylon.
612
Babylon
Scythians
Nineveh.
609
Josiah
Egypt
Assyria
Babylon.
605
Nebuchadnezzar
Babylon
Egyptians
Babylon
becomes the new dominate empire. Judah allowed to remain as a
Daniel
and small group of nobles deported.
597
Jerusalem
Nebuchadnezzar
Babylon
Jehoiakim
Nebuchadnezzar
Zedekiah.
Ezekiel
deported.
590
Nebuchadnezzar
Babylon
Jerusalem,
so no one could go in or out.
586
After three years of disease, famine and bloodshed in Jerusalem,
Zedekiah
Nebuchadnezzar
Babylon
Jerusalem.
568
Nebuchadnezzar
Babylon
Egypt
and takes captives
539
Cyrus
Persia
Babylon
Babylon
without a fight.
538
Cyrus
Persia
Zerubbabel
Temple.
521
temple
Darius
Persia
after it had been halted for 17 years.
516
Temple
rebuilt.
478
Esther
Ahasuerus)'s
queen. She saves the Jews from extermination.
458
Ezra
Babylon.
Instructs Jews of their heritage and law to reform the religious
and social structure.
445
Nehemiah
returns and rebuilds the city walls in fifty-two days.