ANCIENT JERUSALEM TIMELINE (2)

(Message by Tanny Keng)

DATE (B.C.)

HISTORIC EVENT

792		King Jehoash of Israel sacks the city, destroys its walls and takes King Amaziah of Judah prisoner.
735 - 732		Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king of Israel, attack the city (2Chronicles 28). King Ahaz seeks the aid of Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, to deliver him from Rezin and Pekah.
701		Sennacherib, king of Assyria, attacks King Hezekiah (2Chronicles 32). Sennacherib threatens to destroy the city, however, God has the Angel of the Lord kill 185,000 troops as they prepare to enter it (2Kings 18-19).
597		The city falls to King Nebuchadnezzar. He takes Judah's king as prisoner to Babylon and sets up Zedekiah as King.
586		King Nebuchadnezzar destroys the city and burns its temple. People of Judah are taken captive to Babylon.
516		The rebuilding of the temple is completed during the reign of Persian King Darius I.

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