CHRONOLOGY

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DATE
EVENT/KING
PROPHET
EXTERNAL

3300-2800

Early Bronze Age

 

Sumerian States

Old Kingdom

2800-2100

Middle Bronze Age

 

Mesopotamia

2100-1530

Patriarchs (1850!)

Hebrews in Egypt

(1650)

Abraham, Sarah,

Miriam

Jacob, Joseph

Middle Kingdom

1530-1300

Exodus - 1280

Moses

Hittites/ Assyria

New Kingdom

1250-1200

Conquest

 

Ramesses 11

1200-1020

Judges/ Iron Age

Samuel

Deborah

Philistine/Assyria weak

End of Egyptian Empire

1020-1000

Saul

   

1000-961

David

Nathan, Gad

 

961-922

Solomon

 

Syria/Rezin

922

Schism

 

Assyria recovers

922

Rehoboam/Judah

Jeroboam/Israel

Ahijah

 

8761869

Omri/Israel

   

869-850

Ahab/Jezebel/Israel

Efijah/Elisha

 

842/815

Jehu/Israel

 

Syria/Hazael

7831742

786/746

Uzziah(Jotham)/

Jeroboam 11/Israel

Amos 750

Assyria weak

742/735

Jotham/Judah

Shallum/Israel

Pekah/Israel

Hosea 745

Isaiah 742

Micah 735

Tiglath-Pileser

735/715

732/724

Ahaz/Judah

Hoshea/Israel

Isaiah

Shalmanaser

722/1

Fall of Samaria

 

Sargon

715/687

Rezekiah

Isaiah

Sennacherib

687/642

Manasseh

 

Sennacherib 704/681

640/609

Josiah

Jeremiah

Egypt strong / Rise of Babylon

609

Jehoiakim

 

Nebuchadnezzar

598

Jehoiachim

 

Nebuchadnezzar

597/587

Zedekiah

Ezekiel/”

1st deportation

587

“ “

2nd deportation

582

   

3rd deportation

587-538

 

Ezekiel

Deutero-Isaiah

Exile

520/515

Zerubbabel

Temple rebuilt

Haggai/Zechariah

Persia/ Cyrus

500/465

 

Obadiah/Malachi,

 

458/445

 

Ezra/Nehemiah

Isa 56-66

Persia

336/323

Alexander

 

Greece

Seleucids

167

Antiochus iv

Judas Maccabeus

66