PERIOD OF RESTORATION: Ezra, Nehemiah & Esther |
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A Chronological Time Line |
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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 | |||
(c) 1998 Wil Pounds wil@abideinchrist.com
Title: Period of Restoration: Ezra, Nehemiah & Esther (Time Line)
Series: A Look at the Book
Period of Restoration: Ezra, Nehemiah & Esther (Time Line) by Wil Pounds (c) 1998. Anyone is free to use this material and distribute it, but it may not be sold under any circumstances whatsoever without the author's written consent. Scripture quotations from the New American Standard Bible (c) 1973 The Lockman Foundation.
Wil is a graduate of William Carey College, B. A.; New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Th. M.; and Azusa Pacific University, M. A. He has pastored in Panama, Ecuador and the U. S. He had a daily expository Bible teaching ministry head in over 100 countries for over nine years. He continues to seek opportunities to be personally involved in world missions. Wil and his wife Ann have three grown daughters.
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