PERIOD
OF RESTORATION: Ezra, Nehemiah & Esther |
A Chronological Time Line |
DATE |
EVENTS |
JEWISH
WRITING |
FOREIGN
POWER |
JEWISH
LEADER |
PROPHETS
overlap |
| 722 |
DEPORTATION OF ISRAEL TO
ASSYRIA. "Lost tribes of Israel" do not return. Samaritans live in the land
of Israel |
Isaiah, Micah, Hosea |
Assyria |
Hosea (Israel) Hezekiah
(Judah) |
Isaiah, Micah, Hosea |
| 605 |
Battle of Carchemish – Egypt &
Assyria defeated & end of Assyrian Empire. Daniel and group deported to Babylon |
Jeremiah |
Assyria |
|
Jeremiah |
| 597 |
Ezekiel and 10,000 captives deported |
Lamentations |
Babylon |
|
Daniel |
| 586 |
FALL OF JERUSALEM &
TEMPLE BURNED |
|
Babylon |
|
Ezekiel |
|
40,000 deported to Babylon (II Kings 24:1,
10–16, 18; II Chron. 36:11–21; Jer. 52:1–11; Ezek. 1:1–2; Dan.
1:1–7) Jeremiah and group flee to Egypt (Jer. 42:15–22; 44:26–28) |
|
|
|
|
| 538 |
Babylon surrenders to Cyrus
"the Great" RESTORATION PERIOD BEGINS |
|
Medo–Persia |
|
|
| 537 |
First group return from
Captivity under ZERUBBABEL (Ezra 1:2–4). Restore the Altar & worship |
|
|
Zerubbabel |
Zechariah |
| 535 |
Second year of Return – Foundation of the
TEMPLE begun and stopped by opposition |
|
|
Ezra |
|
| 520 |
Rebuilding of Temple Resumed |
|
|
|
Haggai |
| 516 |
Temple Finished and
Dedicated |
|
|
|
|
| 473 |
Ester is Queen of Persia |
Esther |
|
|
|
| 458 |
Second group returns to Jerusalem. Synagogues
& Scribes founded |
Ezra |
|
Nehemiah |
Malachi |
| 445 |
Nehemiah Rebuilds the Walls of Jerusalem |
Nehemiah |
|
|
|
| 433 |
Nehemiah returns and institutes Reforms |
Malachi |
|
|
|
|
OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY
ENDS WITH THE BOOK OF MALACHI |
|
|
|
400 silent years |
| 333 |
Alexander the Great defeats Darius III |
|
Greece |
|
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