Bible history

Period of the Monarchy

Blackwood’s Comprehensive Aids to the Study of the Bible · Vol. I, p. 34

Begins on Vol. I, p. 34

From David to the Babylonish Captivity (442 Years).

Before Christ	Events in the History of the Israelites	Contemporaneous Events in Heathen Countries
1048	David reigns at Jerusalem over all Israel.	Hiram I. (Abibal), king of Tyre; Hadadezer of Aram-zobah; Toi of Hamath; Hanun of Ammon.
	Prophets Nathan and Gad.
	David places the ark in Zion; extends his kingdom from Egypt to the Euphrates.
1017	Solomon succeeds.	Psinaches in Egypt; Hadad and Genubath in Edom (?)?; Rezon in Damascus.
	Prophet Nathan.
1014	Commencement of the building of the temple.	Hiram of Tyre; Psensennes in Egypt.
1004	Completion of the temple, and beginning of the palace-building.
994	Dedication of the temple.	Homeric age (?).
975	Solomon dies. Division of the kingdom.	Sesonchis (Shishak) in Egypt.

Before Christ	Kingdom of Judah	Before Christ	Kingdom of Israel	Before Christ	Contemporaneous Events in Heathen Countries
977	Rehoboam reigns seventeen years.		Jeroboam reigns twenty-two years.
	Prophet Shemaiah.		Prophet Ahijah.
973	Jerusalem plundered by	...			Shishak.
960	Abijam three years; war between Judah and	...	Israel.		Tabrimmon in Syrian Damascus.
955?	Asa reigns forty-one years.	954	Nadab reigns two years.		Osorkon (Zerah ?) in Egypt.
953	Victory over Zerah.	953	Baasha twenty-four years; Prophet Jehu.		Benhadad I. in Syrian Damascus.
932	War between Judah and	...	Israel.
	Judah is aided by	...			Syrian Damascus.
	Prophets Azariah and Hanani.	930	Elah reigns two years.
		929	Zimri. Civil war for four years.
		927	Omri alone for six years.
		926	Samaria made the capital.
		918	Ahab 22 years; marries Jezebel, daughter of		Ethbaal (Itobal) of Tyre and Sidon.
914	Jehoshaphat reigns 25 years; fights with	...	Ahab unsuccessfully against		Ben-hadad II. of Syrian Damascus.
			Prophets Elijah and Micaiah.
900	is victorious over Ammon and Moab.	897	Ahaziah two years; revolt of Moab.
		896	Jehoram reigns twelve years.
	fights in alliance with	...	Jehoram against		Moab.
	Prophets Jehu, Jehaziel and Eliezer.
892	Jehoram eight years, having married
	Athaliah, daughter of	...	Ahab.
	Edom revolts.		Prophet Elisha.
	Philistines & Arabians plunder Jerusalem.
885	Ahaziah one year; fights in alliance with	...	Joram unsuccessfully against		Hazael of Syrian Damascus.
884	Ahaziah and	...	Joram killed by Jehu.		Lycurgus in Sparta (?).
	Athaliah's usurpation lasts six years.	884	Jehu reigns twenty-eight years.
878	Joash reigns forty years.		The country east of Jordan conquered by		Hazael.
	Prophet Joel (?).		Prophet Jonah.
856	Repairing of the temple.	856	Jehoahaz 17 years; Israel reduced by		Hazael.
	Gath taken, and Jerusalem threatened by	...			Hazael.
840	The Syrians invade Judah.	840	Jehoash reigns sixteen years;
839	Amaziah 29 years; besieges Edom; is		defeats the Syrians three times under		Ben-hadad III.
	defeated by	...	Jehoash, who as conqueror enters Jerusalem.
		825	Jeroboam II. 41 years; restores boundary of Israel, by war with Syrians
811	Uzziah reigns fifty-two years; fortifies the Edomite seaport Elath.
	Prophet Amos.	784	Interregnum of ten years.	776	The first Olympiad.
			Prophet Hosea.
		774	Zechariah reigns six months.
		773	Shallum reigns one month.
			Menahem ten years; Israel tributary to the	...	Assyrians under Phul.
		762	Pekahiah reigns two years.
759	Jotham reigns sixteen years.	760	Pekah reigns twenty years.
	Prophets Micah and Isaiah (till reign of anasseh? (?).			753	Building of Rome.
				747	Nabonassar in Babylon.
743	Ahaz sixteen years; obtains against	...	Israel and the	...	Syrians under Rezin.
	the help of the	...		...	Assyrians under Tiglath-pileser.
	Prophet Obed; Ahaz dependent on Assyria.		Transportation of many of the people to	...	Assyria.
		740	Interregnum of nine years.	734	Syracuse founded.
727	Hezekiah reigns twenty-nine years;	731	Hoshea nine years; tributary to the	...	Assyrians;
	conquers the Philistines.		attempts to free himself by alliance with	...	So, king of Egypt.
		724	Samaria besieged by	...	Shalmaneser of Assyria.
		722	Samaria taken.
			Israel led captive into	...	Assyria.
			The land peopled by Assyrian colonists.	716	Gyges in Lydia.
				715	Numa Pompilius.
714	Judah invaded by	...		...	Sennacherib.
713	Destruction of the Assyrian army.			709	Deioces in Media,
	Embassy from	...		...	Merodach-baladan in Babylon.
698	Manasseh reigns fifty-five years.		Assyrian colonists sent into Israel by	...	Esar-haddon.
				671-	-17 Psammeticus in Egypt.
643	Amon reigns two years.		Prophet Nahum (?).	658	Byzantium founded.
641	Josiah reigns thirty-one years.			637	Cyrene settled by Greeks; Irruptions of Scythians.
629	Prophet Jeremiah.			625	Nabopolassar independent in Babylon.
	Prophet Zephaniah.			623	Draco's laws at Athens.
				617	Alyattes in Lydia.

Before Christ	Events in the History of the Israelites	Before Christ	Contemporaneous Events in Heathen Countries
624	Finding of the book of the law, and suppression of idolatry extending to the cities of Samaria.	616	Necho reigns in Egypt.
610-9	Josiah falls in battle against Necho, king of Egypt.	610	Eclipse of Thales.
	Jehoahaz reigns three months; Jehoiakim eleven years.	606	Capture of Nineveh by the Medes and Babylonians.
606-5	Judah made tributary by Nebuchadnezzar. Date usually fixed for commencement of the seventy years' subjection to Babylon.		The Egyptians defeated by the Chaldeans at Carchemish.