A. M.

B. C.

2825 Adonijah aspires to the kingdom. David causes his 1179 son Solomon to be crowned, who is proclaimed king by all Israel.

The death of David, aged 70 years.

Solomon reigns alone, having reigned about six months
in the lifetime of his father David. He reigned in all
40 years.

3001 The temple of Solomon finished, being seven years and 1003

a half in building.-Its dedication.

3029 The death of Solomon, succession of Rehoboam, and the revolt of the ten tribes. Jeroboam the son of Nebat acknowledged king of the ten tribes.

Kings of Judah, for 388 years.

971

3030 Rehoboam, intending to subdue the ten tribes, is commanded to forbear.

970

3032 Rehoboam gives himself up to impiety.

967

3046 Rehoboam dies. Abijam succeeds him; reigns three

954

years.

3047 Abijam's victory over Jeroboam; who loses many

thousands of his troops.

953

3049 Abijam dies. Asa succeeds him, and suppresses idolatry 951

in Judah.

3064 Asa engages Ben-hadad king of Syria to make an irrup

tion into the territories of the kingdom of Israel, to
force Baasha to quit his undertaking at Ramah.

936

3090 Death of Asa, who is succeeded by Jehoshaphat. He 910 expels superstitious worship.

Elijah removed from this world in a fiery chariot.

3107 Jehoshaphat accompanies Ahab in his expedition

against Ramoth Gilead; where he narrowly escapes
a great danger.

3108 Jehoshaphat equips a fleet for Ophir : Ahaziah king of
Israel partaking of the design, the fleet is destroyed

by tempest.

3115 Jehoshaphat dies; Jehoram succeeds him.

3116 Jehoram, at the importunity of his wife Athaliah, intro

duces into Judah the worship of Baal. He is smitten
by God with an incurable distemper in his bowels;
makes his son Ahaziah viceroy, or associate in his
kingdom. Jehoram dies.

3119 Ahaziah reigns but one year.

Joash or Jehoash born.

Homer the Greek poet flourishes.

893

892

885

884

880

3120 Ahaziah accompanies Jehoram king of Israel to the 879

siege of Ramoth Gilead. He is slain by Jehu.

Athaliah kills all the royal family; usurps the kingdom.
Jehoash is preserved and kept secretly in the temple

six years.

3126 Jehoiada the high priest sets Jehoash on the throne of 878

Judah, and slays Athaliah.

3164 Zechariah the high priest, son of Jehoiada, killed in the

temple by order of Jehoash.

Hazael king of Syria wars against Jehoash.

836

A. M.

3165 Hazael returns against Jehoash; and forces large sums from him. (2 Chron. xxiv. 23,)

Jehoash dies, and is succeeded by Amaziah.

B. C.

3178 Amaziah wars against Jehoash king of Israel; is de- 822 feated by him.

3189 Amaziah dies; Uzziah or Azariah succeeds him.

Isaiah and Amos prophesy in Judah under this reign.

Kings of Israel for 254 years.

810

3030 Jeroboam, son of Nebat, the first king of Israel, or of 970 the revolted ten tribes.-He abolishes the worship of the LORD, and sets up the golden calves.

3047 Jeroboam overcome by Abijam, who kills 500,000 men. 3050 Jeroboam dies; Nadab his son succeeds; reigns two

years.

953

950

3052 Nadab dies; Baasha succeeds him.
3074 Baasha dies; Elah his son succeeds him.

946

926

3075 Elah killed by Zimri, who usurps the kingdom seven days.

925

3075 Omri besieges Zimri in Tirzah; he burns himself in

925

the palace.

3079 Omri builds Samaria; makes it the seat of his kingdom. 3086 Omri dies; Ahab his son succeeds.

921

914

904

3096 The prophet Elijah presents himself before Ahab, and
causes the false prophets of Baal to be slain.
Gives the prophetic unction to Elisha.

3103 Ben-hadad king of Syria besieges Samaria; is forced 901

to quit it.

3107 Ahab wars against Ramoth Gilead; is killed in disguise. 897

Ahaziah succeeds.

3108 Ahaziah falling from the lattice of his house, is dan- 896 gerously wounded, and dies; Jehoram his brother succeeds him, and makes war against Moab.

3109 Elisha foretells victory to the army of Israel, and pro- 895 cures water in abundance.

3119 Samaria besieged by Ben-hadad king of Syria. Ben- 881 hadad and his army, seized with a panic, flee during

the night.

3120 Elisha, going to Damascus, foretells the death of Ben- 880
hadad, and the reign of Hazael.

Jehoram marches with Ahaziah against Ramoth Gilead;
is dangerously wounded, and carried to Jezreel.
Jehu rebels against Jehoram; kills him, and usurps the
throne.

3148 Jehu dies; Jehoahaz his son succeeds him.

852

3165 Jehoahaz dies. Joash, or Jehoash, whom he had 835 associated with himself on the throne, A.M. 3162, succeeds him.

3168 Hazael king of Syria dies; and Ben-hadad succeeds 822

him.

Jehoash wars against Ben-hadad.

3178 Jehoash obtains a great victory over Amaziah king of 821

Judah.

A. M.

3179 Jehoash king of Israel dies; Jeroboam II: succeeds
him.

Jonah, Hosea, and Amos in Israel, prophesy during
this reign.

B. C. 820

768

3232 Jeroboam II. dies; Zachariah his son succeeds him. 779 (The chronology of this reign is very perplexed.) 3232 Zachariah killed by Shallum, after reigning six months. 3233 Shallum reigns one month; is killed by Menahem. Pul (or Sardanapalus) king of Assyria invades Israel; Menahem becomes tributary to him.

Kings of Judah.

767

3246 Uzziah dies; Jotham his son succeeds.

$754

Isaiah sees the glory of the Lord. (Is. vi.) Isaiah and
Hosea continue to prophesy.

3261 Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah king of Israel, invade Judah.

737

3262 Jotham dies; Ahaz succeeds him. Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah king of Israel, continue their hostilities against Judah.

736

3263 Isaiah foretells to Ahaz the birth of the Messiah, and 735
a speedy deliverance from the two kings his enemies.
Nevertheless, the year following they return again
and spoil his country.

Ahaz invites to his assistance Tiglath-pileser king of
Assyria, and submits to pay him tribute.

3278 Ahaz king of Judah dies, and is succeeded by his son
Hezekiah, who restores the worship of the Lord in
Judæa, which Ahaz had almost entirely subverted.

Judah alone.

3285 On the death of Shalmaneser, Sennacherib succeeds him, and invades Judah, and takes several cities.

722

712

3291 Hezekiah's sickness and miraculous cure. He gives 706 money to Sennacherib, who still continues his war against him. He sends Rabshakeh to Jerusalem, and marches himself against Tirhakah king of Cush or Arabia. Returning into Judæa, the angel of the Lord destroys many thousands of his army; he retires to Nineveh, where he is slain by his sons. 3292 Esar-haddon succeeds Sennacherib.

Micah the Morasthite, and Nahum, prophesy. 3306 Hezekiah dies, and is succeeded by Manasseh.

705

694

3323 Esar-haddon becomes master of Babylon; re-unites the empires of Assyria and Chaldæa.

677

Babylon.

3329 Manasseh taken by the Chaldæans, and carried to

3347 The war of Holofernes, who is slain in Judæa by

671

653

Judith.

3361 Manasseh dies. He returned into Judæa a consider

639

able time before, but the period is not exactly known;
Amon succeeds him; reigns two years.

A. M.

B. C.

3363 Amon dies; Josiah succeeds him.

3376 Jeremiah begins to prophesy, in the thirteenth year of Josiah.

637

3394 Josiah opposes the expedition of Necho king of Egypt 606 against Carchemish, is mortally wounded, and dies

at Jerusalem. Jeremiah composes lamentations on
his death.

Jehoahaz is placed on the throne by the people; but
Necho, returning from Carchemish, deposes him,
and installs Eliakim, or Jehoiakim, his brother, son
of Josiah.

3398 Nebuchadnezzar besieges and takes Jerusalem; leaves 602 Jehoiakim there, on condition of paying him a large tribute. Daniel and his companions led captive to Babylon.

3402 Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a great statue explained by 598

Daniel.

Kings of Israel.

3243 Menahem dies; Pekahiah his son succeeds.
3245 Pekahiah assassinated by Pekah, son of Remaliah.
3254 Arbaces, governor of Media, and Belesis, governor of
Babylonia, besiege Sardanapalus king of Assyria in
Nineveh, who, after a siege of three years, burns
himself in his palace, with all his riches. Arbaces
is acknowledged king of Media, and Belesis of
Babylon.

757

755

746

3264 Tiglath-pileser defeats and slays Rezin king of Damas- 736 cus; enters the land of Israel, and takes many cities and captives, chiefly from Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh. The first captivity of Israel. 3265 Hoshea son of Elah slays Pekah, and usurps the 735 kingdom.

3276 Shalmaneser succeeds Tiglath-pileser king of Nineveh. 724 3279 Hoshea makes an alliance with So king of Egypt, and 721 endeavours to shake off the yoke of Shalmaneser, who besieges Samaria; takes it after three years' siege, and carries beyond the Euphrates the tribes that Tiglath-pileser had not already carried into captivity; and puts an end to the kingdom of Israel, after it had subsisted two hundred and fifty-four years.

Judah alone.

3404 Jehoiakim revolts against Nebuchadnezzar, who sends 596 an army from Chaldæa, Syria, and Moab, which ravages Judæa, and brings away 3023 Jews to Babylon, in the seventh year of Jehoiakim.

3405 Cyrus born, son of Cambyses and Mandane. Jehoiakim revolts a second time against Nebuchadnezzar; is taken, put to death, and cast to the fowls of the air.

595

A. M.

Jehoiachin or Coniah, or Jeconiah, succeeds him. Nebuchadnezzar besieges him in Jerusalem, and takes him, after he had reigned three months and ten days. He is carried to Babylon, with part of the people. Mordecai is among the captives. Zedekiah, his uncle, is left at Jerusalem, in his place. 3410 Ezekiel begins to prophesy in Chaldæa. 3412 Zedekiah takes secret measures with the king of Egypt, and revolts against the Chaldæans. Nebuchadnezzar marches against Jerusalem; besieges it; quits the siege to repel the king of Egypt, who comes to assist Zedekiah; returns to the siege. Jeremiah continues prophesying during the whole of the siege, which continued almost three years. Ezekiel also describes the same siege in Chaldæa.

3415 Jerusalem taken on the ninth day of the fourth month
(July), the 11th year of Zedekiah. Zedekiah, en-
deavouring to flee by night, is taken, and brought to
Riblah, to Nebuchadnezzar; his eyes are put out,
and he is carried to Babylon.

Jerusalem and the temple burnt; seventh day of the
fourth month.

The Jews of Jerusalem and Judæa carried captive be-
yond the Euphrates; the poorer classes only left in
the land.

Thus ends the kingdom of Judæa, after it had sub-
sisted four hundred and sixty-eight years, from
the beginning of the reign of David: and three
hundred and eighty-eight years from the sepa-
ration of Judah and the ten tribes.

PERIOD VI.

From the Babylonish Captivity to Nehemiah's Reform.

B. C.

590

588

3416 The beginning of the seventy years' captivity foretold by Jeremiah.

587

Gedaliah made governor of the remains of the people.
He is slain.

MEDIAN AND PERSIAN DYNASTY.

3447 Darius the Mede.

3449 Cyrus the Persian.

3464 Babylon taken by Cyrus, who sets the Jews at liberty, and permits them to return into Judæa under Zorobabel. Joshua, the first high priest, in the same

553

551

536

535

3471 Death of Cyrus; Cambyses reigns.

529

3479 Darius Hystaspes.

521

3484 The temple finished.

516

3515 Death of Darius; Xerxes succeeds to the throne.

485