1849.] Biblical Chronology. 559 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES FROM SAUL TO THE DEATH OF SIMON MACCABAEUS, AND FROM KING HEROD'S ENTRANCE ON HIS GOVERNMENT TO THE IMPRISONMENT OF PAUL AT ROME. 758 Jotham king. Isaiah prophesies under this and the two following kings. 741 Ahaz king. Ahaz, attacked by Israel and Syria, purchases aid of Assyria. Edomites revolt? The Philistines seize on a part of the west of Judah. Judah dependent on Assyria. 725 Hezekiah king, fights successfully with the Philistines. The prophet Micah. Alliance with Egypt, as a defence against Assyria. 712 The Assyrians besiege Jerusalem, but suddenly retreat. 772. Zachariah, son of Jeroboam, king. 771. Zachariah murder- Pul reigns in Assyria. ed. Shallum king. Shallum, in 1 month, murdered. Menahem king. Israel tributary to Assyria. 760. Pekahiah king. 758. Pekahiahmurdered. Pekah king. The Assyrians conquer the country E. of the Jordan, and N. Palestine, and take captive the people. 738. Pekah murdered Anarchy ? 729. Hoshea king, tributary to Assyria. 722. Hoshea, relying on the aid of Egypt, attempts to throw off the Assyrian yoke, occasions an Assyrian invasion. Samaria besieged. 721. Samaria taken. Kingdom of Israel destroyed. The inhabitants carried into exile. The land colonized by the Assyrians. Moabites spread over the country E. of the Jordan (earlier?). 753. Rome founded. 747. Nabonassar, king of Babylon. Era of Nabonassar commences. Rezin king in SyriaDamascus; TiglathPileser, in Assyria. The first, in a war with the last, loses his crown and life. In Egypt, 3 dynasties, contemporary-a Tanitic, a Saftic, and an Ethiopian (in UpperE.) Assyria, (Media and Babylonia), Shalmanezer reigns; marches into Hither Asia, subdues a part of Phenicia. Elulaeus is king of Tyre.(Jos.Ant.9.14.2.) So, i. e. Sevechus of the In 25th (Ethiop.) dynasty, reigns in Egypt. Sargon, king of Assyria, besieges Ashdod." 715. Numa Pompilius chosen king at Rome. Sennacherib, king of Assyria, marches against Egypt; is met by Tirhakah(Tarakos), king of the 25th (Ethiop.) Dynasty. 641 Amon king. 639 Amon murdered. Josiah king. 627 Jeremiah appears as a prophet, and prophesies down to the destruction ofJerusalem. Prophets Zephaniah and Habakkuk. 622 Discovery of a copy of the book of the law, in repairing the temple. Thorough reform of the theocracy. Prophet Jeremiah begins to prophesy. 609 Josiah is slain in battle with the Egyptians, near Megiddo. Jehoahaz king 3 months. After Jehoahaz is dethroned, Jehoiakim placed by the Egyp tian king on throne. the 598 Jehoiakim*. Jehoiachin reigns three months. Kingdom of Israel. New Assyrian colonists transplanted to Israel by Esarhaddon. Also in the cities of Is rael, Josiah destroys the remains of idolatry. Psammuthis II. reigns in Egypt. Vaphres or Hophra (after 590) reigns in Egypt. Solon in Athens. Events in Jewish History. Gedaliah, appointed governor of Ju Synchronisms. 563 gins the siege of Tyre. The ruler in Tyre is Ethbaal II. dea by the Babylonians, is mur- In 586 or 585, Nebuchadnezzar be- 584 Last deportation of the Jews to Bab- |
