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BIBLE

[O.T. CHRONOLOGY

Chronological Table—Continued.

 Chronology 
of Ussher.		Biblical Events.Events in Contemporary History.
Babylonia.Assyria.Egypt.
643
641
629



624


610



610









599



599


588








562








536









515






457

445

434







 641. Amon (2)
 639. Josiah (31)
 626. Call of the prophet Jeremiah in Josiah's
  13th year. (Jer. i. 2, xxv. 3)


 621. Discovery of the Book of the Law
  (Deuteronomy) in Josiah's 18th year (2
  Kings xxiii. 3 ff.)
 608. Jehoahaz (3 mo.)



 608. Jehoiakim (11)









 597. Jehoiachin (3 mo.) First deportation
  of captives (including Jehoiachin) to
  Babylonia, in the 8th year of
  Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings xxiv. 12-16)
 597. Zedekiah (11)


 586. Destruction of Jerusalem by the
  Chaldaeans in the 19th year of 19th year
  of Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings xxv. 8).
  Second deportation of captives to
  Babylonia (2 Kings xxv. 4-21)




 561. Jehoiachin released from prison by
 Evil-merodach in the 37th year of his
 captivity (2 Kings xxv. 27-30)





Judah a province of the Persian Empire
 538. Edict of Cyrus, permitting the Jews to
  return to Palestine. Many return under
  the leadership of Zerubbabel (Ezra i.-ii.)







 516. Completion of the second Temple in
  the 6th year of Darius (Ezra vi. 15)





 458. Return of exiles with Ezra, in the 7th
  year of Artaxerxes (Ezra vii. 7)
 445. Nehemiah's first visit to Jerusalem
  (Neh. i. 1, ii. 1)
 432. Nehemiah's second visit to Jerusalem
  (Neh. xiii. 6)



 c. 350. Many Jews carried away captive to
  Hyrcania and Babylonia, probably on
  account of a revolt against the Persians











Chaldaean Dynasty
 625. Nabopolassar












 605. Defeat of Egyptians
  by Nebuchadrezzar (as his
  father's general) at
  Carchemish (Jer. xlvi. 2)
 604. Nebuchadrezzar












 568. Nebuchadrezzar invades
  Egypt (cf. Jer. xliii.
  8-13)

 561. Amēl-marduk (Evil-
  merodach, 2 Ki. xxv. 27)
 559. Nergal-sharuzur (Neriglissar) 
 555. (9 months) Lābashi-marduk
  (Laboriso-archod)
 555. Nabu-na'id (Nabon-nēdus,
  Nabonidus)
 539. Capture of Babylon by Cyrus
Persian Kings
 538. Cyrus


 529. Cambyses



 522. (7 mo.) Gaumāta
  (Pseudo-Smerdis)
 522. Darius Hystaspis


 490. Battle of Marathon
 485. Xerxes
 480. Battles of Thermopylae
  and Salamis
 465. Artaxerxes






 423. Darius II. (Nothus)
 404. Artaxerxes II. (Mnemon)
 359. Artaxerxes III. (Ochus)



 338. Arses
 336. Darius III. (Codomannus)
 333. Persian Empire overthrown
  by Alexander the Great		 670. Esarhaddon conquers
  Egypt
 668–626 Asshur-banipal
  (Assur-bani-pal)

 663. Asshur-banipal invades 
  Egypt, and sacks Thebes
  (Nah. iii. 8-10














 607. Destruction of Nineveh
  by the Medes, and
  end of the empire of
  Assyria.































































 664–525. Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
 664. Psammetichus I.















 610. Necho
 608. Battle of Megiddo,
  and death of Josiah.
  (2 Kings xxiii. 29)














 594. Psammetichus II. (Psammis) 
 589. Apries (Hophra, Jer. xliv. 30)





 570. Amasis II. (jointly
  with Apries)

 564. Amasis alone













 526. Psammetichus III.
 525. Conquest of Egypt
  by Cambyses

























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