XXXIV
 

Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land
 

III—THE FIRST MILLENNIUM  BEFORE CHRIST—continued

(I) TILL THE  RETURN  OF THE JEWS  FROM  EXILE—contintied
 


 


 


 

THE
 

SYRIA,  PHCENICIA,  PHILISTIA,
 


 


 

B.C.
 

JUDAH.
 

ISRAEL.
 

PROPHETS.
 

ETC.
 

ASSYRIA  AND BABYLONIA.
 

B.C.
 

743
 


 

Zechariah (6 months).            '
Shallum (i month).
Menahem.
 


 

LArpad besieged, and after two
 

or three years taken by Assyria.
 

f743
 

742
 


 


 


 

J
 


 

742
 

741
 


 


 

i     Hosea.
 


 


 

^741
 

740
 

" 1 he     year     King
 


 


 


 


 


 

736?
 

Uzziah died."
Jotham sole ruler.
 


 


 


 


 


 

738
 


 

Menahem is       .      .      .
 

,       ,
 

mentioned as tributary to .
 

Assyria.
 

738
 

^. 737
 


 

Pekahiah.                              /
 


 


 


 


 

c. 736
 

Ahaz.
 

Pekah, the Gileadite.
 


 


 


 


 

735
 

Ahaz is attacked
 

both by Pekah and
 


 

by Rezin of Damascus (Isa. vii.)
 


 

735
 

734
 


 

Captivity of Gilead, Galilee,
 


 


 

by Assyria (Isa. viii., ix.).
 

734
 

733
 


 


 

)   Isaiah.
 

Damascus  besieged and taken
 

by Assyria.
 

733
 

732
 

Ahaz   pays   homage
 


 

at Damascus to   the  King  of
 

Assyria.
 

732
 

731
 


 


 


 


 

Tiglath-Pileser becomes King of
 

731
 

c. 730
 


 

Hoshea.
 


 


 

Babylon under the name of Pul.
 


 

c. 727
 

Hezekiah.
 


 


 


 

Shalmaneser IV.
 

727
 

725
 


 

Siege of Samaria begins.
 


 


 


 


 

722 or I
 


 

Fall  of Samaria,   and   de-
 

portation
 

of her people by        .        .        .
 

Sargon.
 

722 or I
 

720 or 19
 


 


 


 

Gaza overthrown by .
 

Sargon as he marches past Judah
and defeats Egypt at Raphia.
 

722 or 19
 

715
 


 

Samaria repeopled
 

•
 


 

by tribes deported from Assyria.
 

715
 

711

709

705

701

692

691

c. 685 ?

681
678
676

675
674

671

c. 670

668

666
c. 664
 

c. 663

662
652
649

647
645

c. 641
c. 639
c. 630
627
c. 626

625
 

621
 

c. 620
610

608
 

607-6
604

602 or 600
599 or 597

597
 

594
593
589

587-6
 

573
569
561
 

^- 560-550
554
 

Allied with Egypt,
 

Defeat of Egypt
Taharka.
 

Taharka defeated at

Memphis
Taharka    regains

Egypt.
 

JUDAH.
 

Judah revolts from Assyria.
Invasion of Judah
Deliverance of Jerusalem.
 

Events in Isaiah xxxvii. 9 ff. ?
Manasseh.
 

Manasseh and
 

THE
PROPHETS.
 

Micah.
y  Isaiah.
 

Taharka overthrown,
Dodekarchy estab¬
lished

Urdamman over¬
thrown and Thebes

Fsamtik I

Psamtik I
 

Necho II

Necho    defeats    and
 

Necho defeated
 

Psamtik II
 

Uah-ab-ra

(Hophr^, Apries)
 

Ahmose II.
 

Manasseh and
 

Anion.
Josiah.
 

Jeremiah appears.
 

Book of the Law (Deut. v.-
xxvi., xxviii.) discovered.

Josiah's reforms begin.
Passover (2 Kings xxii.,
xxiii.).
 

slays Josiah at Megiddo
Judah Egyptian vassal.
Jehoahaz      reigns      three

months: taken to Egypt.
Jehoiakim succeeds.
 

Judah vassal
Judah withholds .
Judah invaded
jehoiachin yields
First Great Exile .
ZedeMah vassal .
 

Revolt delayed by Jeremiah
offers help to Zedekiah, who
 

Jerusalem taken  .
Second Great Exile
 

Close of Book of .        ,

Jehoiachin released (2 Kings
xxv. 27-30).
 

Harder times for the Jewish
 

Zephaniah.
 

? Hahak-
kuk.
 

? Nahum.
) Jeremiah.
 

SYRIA,  PHCENICIA,  PHILISTIA,
ETC.
 

Ashdod taken by
 

(Isa. XXX., xxxi.).
and all Palestine
Siege of Ekron.
at Battle of Eltekeh
 

ASSYRIA,   BABYLONIA,   ETC.
 

Sidon   subdued   and   Sidonians
21 Palestine princes pay tribute

also Greek princes of Cyprus.
Arabia invaded ....
Sinai invaded ....
Tyre besieged    ....
 

21 Palestine princes pay tribute
(Palestine princes aiding)   .
 

Tyre and Arvad taken
Palestine princes, Arabia, Lydia
 

Hauran, N. Arabia, and Edom )
Ammon, Moab, and Nabataea    j
Usa "by the sea" and Akko
Tyre assists, against Arvad,
 

Western Palestine
 

by Moab, Ammon, and Aramaeans
 

Ezekiel.
 

Ezekiel.
 

Lamentations.
 

"Isaiah,"
chs. xl.-lv.
 

Sargon (Isa. xx. i).

Sargon     takes    Babylon     from

Merodach-Baladan.
Death of Sargon.   Sennacherib.
by Sennacherib (Isa. xxxvi.-xxxvii.

8).
by Sennacherib.
Sennacherib destroys Babylon.
War with Merodach-Baladan.

Sennacherib niurdered. Asarhaddon.

deported by Asarhaddon.

to Assyria:.....

by Asarhaddon.
by Asarhaddon.
by Asarhaddon.

by Asarhaddon.
Assurbanipal.

to Assyria.
 

by Assurbanipal.

( taken on 2nd Egyptian campaign
\     of Assurbanipal.
by Assurbanipal.
Elam, and Babylon revolt.
Assurbanipal  reduces   Elam  and

Babylon,
f reduced   in   two   campaigns   by
\     Assurbanipal.
punished by Assurbanipal.
Assurbanipal.

Scythians invade Western Asia.

invaded by Scythians.
Assur-itil-ilani.
Nineveh attacked by Medes.
Nabopolassar    independent    in
Babylon.
 

Sin-sar-uskin.

and Nebuchadrezzar on Euphrates.
 

Fall of  Nineveh  to   Medes  and
Chaldaeans under Nabopolassar.

by    Nebuchadrezzar     at     Car-
chemish.

Nebuchadrezzar.

of Babylon (2 Kings xxiv. i).

tribute from Babylon (2 Kgs.xxiv.i).

in alHance with Babylon.") ,   ^.

to Nebuchadrezzar.          I ^^ ^}^S^

to Babylonia.                    ('   ^'^^^r

of Babylon.                       J    ^~^7h

against Babyjon (Jer. xxxvi. f.)

(2 Kings
xxiv. 20-
 

revolts from Babylon.
 

by Nebuchadrezzar.

to Babylonia.                J     ""••/•

Battle   of   the   Eclipse:    Triple

League,      Babylon.      Media,

Lydia.
 

Nebuchadrezzar dies.

Evil-Merodach.

Neriglissar.

exiles under Nabunahid (Nabonidos)
Fall of Median Monarchy.  Cyrus.
Cyrus    is   repulsed   from   Baby¬
lonia.    Invades   Lydia;    takes
Sardis and King Croesus.