DECLINE, EXILE AND RETURN
A. Ralph Johnson
|
JUDAH |
B.C. |
ISRAEL |
B.C. |
ASSYRIA |
B.C. |
|
Jehoshaphat |
874-50 |
Ahab |
875-854 |
Shalmaneser III |
850-825 |
|
|
|
Ahaziah |
855-854 |
-fought Ahab |
. |
|
Jehoram |
850-43 |
Joram |
854-843 |
|
|
|
Ahaziah |
843 |
Jehu |
843-816 |
(Jehu pays tribute to Shalmaneser) |
|
|
Athaliah |
843-837 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joash |
843-837 |
Jehoahaz |
820-804 |
Shansi-adad |
825-808 |
|
Amaziah |
803-775 |
Joash |
806-790 |
Adad-nirari |
808-783 |
|
Uzziah |
787-735 |
Jeroboam II |
790 |
Shalmaneser IV |
783-771 |
|
Jotham |
749-734 |
Zechariah |
748 |
Assur-dyan |
771-753 |
|
|
|
Shallum |
748 |
Assur-lush |
753-747 |
|
Ahaz |
741-726 |
Menahem |
748-738 |
Isaiah's call |
735 |
|
|
|
Pekahiah |
738-736 |
Tiglath Pileser III ("Pul")( |
747-727 |
|
|
|
Pekah |
748-730 |
-conquered Israel & Syria |
|
|
Hezekiah |
726-697 |
Hoshea |
730-721 |
Shalmaneser V |
727-721 |
|
|
|
|
END |
SargonII conquers Ashdod. |
722-705 |
|
-sickness |
712 |
|
|
Sennacherib invades Judah |
705-681 |
|
Manasseh
|
697-642 |
|
|
Esarhaddon deports Israel. (Is.7:8; II K.17:24; Ezra 4:2) |
680-667
|
|
Amon |
641-640 |
|
|
Assur-banipal |
667-626 |
|
Josiah |
639-608 |
|
|
(Jeremiah called) |
626 |
|
Killed by Pharaoh-necho |
|
Assur-etil-ilani, Sin-sar-iskun |
626-607 |
||
|
|
|
EGYPT |
|
||
|
Jehoahaz carried to Egypt. |
608 |
Pharaoh-necho sets up Jehoiakim Pharaoh-necho -Charchamish defeat |
|
||
|
Jehoiakim (Eliakim) Subjugated to Babylon. |
608-597 |
BABYLON |
|
||
|
-Revolted, Died- |
|
Nebuchadnezzar- |
606-561 |
||
|
Jehoiachin (Coniah) -Taken to Babylon. |
597 |
-Jehoiachin; taken to Babylon |
|
||
|
Zedekiah (Mattaniah) -revolt. To Babylon. |
597-586 |
-Zedekiah Blinded, -to Babylon |
|
||
|
Gedaliah made Governor (slain) |
585 |
Evil Merodach |
561-560 |
||
|
70 YEARS IN BABYLON |
|
Neriglissar |
559-556 |
||
|
|
|
Labash-marduk |
556 |
||
|
|
|
Nabonidas & Belshazzar |
555-536 |
||
|
RETURN FROM BABYLON |
|
PERSIA |
|
||
|
Zerubbabel & Joshua- Rebuilding temple |
536 |
Cyrus |
556-529 |
||
|
-Letters to Ahaseras (Ezr.4:6) |
|
Cambyses |
529-522 |
||
|
-Artaxerxes stops work (4:7-24) |
|
Pseudo-Smeridis (Impostor) |
522 |
||
|
Haggai, Zech. command resume rebuilding |
520 |
Darius I (Hystastapes) approves. |
|
||
|
-Temple completed |
516 |
|
|
||
|
Esther becomes queen of Persia |
478 |
Xerxes (Ahasuerus) |
485-465 |
||
|
-saves her people |
|
|
|
||
|
Ezra brings 2nd group to Jerusalem. |
475 |
Artaxerxes (Longimanus) |
465-425 |
||
|
Nehemiah brings 3rd group to rebuild walls. |
444 |
Xerxes II |
424 |
||
|
Nehemiah returns again. |
432 |
Darius II (Nothius) |
423-405 |
||
|
Malachi writes |
400 |
Artaxerxes II (Mnemon) |
405-358 |
||
|
|
|
Artaxerxes III (Ochus) |
358-338 |
||
|
|
|
Arses |
338-335 |
||
|
|
|
Darius III (Codomanus) |
335-331 |
||
|
|
|
GREECE |
|
||
|
|
|
Alexander the Great |
331 |
||