UNDERSTANDING JONAH | BIBLE TIMELINE

0. Introduction

a) Timeline. This puts the Bible book into its historical setting. It lists the key events of each book and the date when they occurred.

b) The Book of Jonah. 

1. Date: 793 B.C.

a) Jeroboam II becomes king; Jonah becomes a prophet. 

2. Date: 792

a) Uzziah (Azariah) becomes king of Judah.

3. Date: 785 (?)

a) Jonah preaches to Nineveh. 

4. Date: 783

a) Shalmaneser IV becomes king of Assyria. 

5. Date: 772

a) Ashur-dan III becomes king of Assyria. 

6. Date: 760

a) Amos becomes a prophet. 

7. Date: 754 

a) Ashur-Nirari V becomes king of Assyria.

8. Date: 753 

a) Jonah's ministry ends. 

9. Date: 722

a) Israel falls to Assyria.