Final Timeline

Question 1

722-721 BC

Answer 1

Assyrian invasion of Israel

Destruction and deportation

Question 2

701 BC

Answer 2

Invasion of Judah by Sennacherib

Besieged Jerusalem and left suddenly

Question 3

597 BC

Answer 3

Jerusalem besieged by Nebuchadnezzar, Jehiokim killed, first exile of important people

Question 4

587-586 BC

Answer 4

Babylon besieged Jerusalem, destroys it, 2nd exile

Question 5

582 BC

Answer 5

Possible third exile

Question 6

539 BC

Answer 6

Babylon falls to Cyrus the Persian in a nearly bloodless coup

Question 7

336-323 BC

Answer 7

Alexander the Great- Conquest and soft Hellenization

Disputed succession, creation of a land boundary in Judah

Question 8

198 BC

Answer 8

Seleucid reign of Jude’s begins

Question 9

176-163 BC

Answer 9

Reign of Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Forced hellenization
Desecration of the temple

Question 10

167 BC

Answer 10

Beginning of the Maccabean Revolt

Question 11

142

Answer 11

Beginning of the Hasmonean Dynasty

Simon/ Simeon as ethnarch and high priest

Question 12

63 BC

Answer 12

Succession conflict leads

To roman rule of Judea (Pompey) Hasmoneans still kings under Rome