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Chronological Table—Continued. Chronology of Ussher.
Probable Real Dates.
Biblical Events.
Babylonia. 3800. Sargon of Agade, who carries his arms as far as the Mediter3ranean Sea c. 2800. Ur-bau and Dungi, kings of Uru (Ur, Gen. xi. 28, 31) Between 2376-2333 and 21202065.4 Khammurabi (unifies Babylonia and constructs in it many great works)
Events in Contemporary History. Assyria.
Egypt.
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The Deluge 2348 [25012] 1996-1821 Between e. 2350 and Abraham [2211-20362] c. 2100 (as determined by the synchronism with Khammurabi: see p. SOI)
1099-1058 1058-1017 1017-977 977 959 956 956 954 930 929 929 918 914 892 885 884 878 856 841 839 823 810
c. 1200 (?) c. 1020-1000& c. 1000-970 c. 970-933 Judah. 933. Rehoboam (17) 916. Abijah (3) 913. Asa (41)
The Exodus Saul (2)6 David (40) Solomon (40) Israel. 933. Jeroboam I. (22)
873. Jehoshaphat (25) 849. 842. 842. 836.
Jehoram (8) Ahaziah (1) Athaliah (6) Jehoash (40)
1820. Ishmi-dagan, priestking of Nineveh 1587-1327. Eighteenth Dynasty 1503-1449. Thothmes III. (leads victorious expeditions into Asia) c. 1450. Asshur-bel-nisheshu, first king of Assyria at present known 1414-1383. Amen-hotep III. s. 1400. Burnaburiash II. Tel 1383-1365. Amen-hotep IV. el-Amarna correspondence 1327-1181. Nineteenth Dynasty c. 1300. Shalmaneser I. (builder of Calah, 1275-1208. Ramses II. Gen. x. 11) 1208-1187. Merenptah II. 960-810. Twenty-second Dynasty 960-939. Sheshonq (Shishak). Shishak invades J udah in the fifth year of Rehoboam (1 Ki. xiv. 25/.)
912. Nadab (2) 911. Baasha (24) 888. Elah (2) 887. Zimri (7 days) 887. Omri (12) 876. Ahab (22) 854. Ahaziah (2) 853. Jehoram (12)
885-860. Asshur-nazir-abal 860-825. Shalmaneser II. 854. Ahdb mentioned at the battle of Karkar
842. Jehu (28)
842. Jehu pays tribute to Shalmaneser II.
773 772 772 758 761 759 742 730
814. Jehoahaz (17) 798. Jehoash (16) 747-733. Nabonassar 797. Amaziah (29) 783. Jeroboam II. (41) 779. Uzziah (52) c. 750. Jotham (16), as regent (2 Ki. xv. 5) 743. Zechariah (6 mo.) 743. Shallum (1 mo.) 743. Menahem (10) 740. Jotham, sole ruler 738. Pekahiah (2) 737. Pekah (20) 736.7 Ahaz (16) ] ' 733 (or 732). Hoshea(9)
726
727.7 Hezekiah (29)
721
2093-1587. Fifteenth to Seventeenth Dynasties. Rule of the Hyksos
825-812. Shamshi-Rammfin 812-783. Ramman-Nirari III. 745-727. Tiglath-pileser III.
738. Menahem pays tribute to Tiglath - pileser III. (cf. 2 Ki. xv. 19) 733 (or 732). Assassination of Pekah, and succession of Hoshea, mentioned by Tiglath-pileser III. 732. Capture of Damascus by Tiglath - pileser III. (2 Ki. xvi. 9 ; cf. Is. 4, xvii. 1) 729-724. Tiglath-pileser, 727-722.viii. Shalmaneser IV. under the name of Pulu (cf. 2 Ki. xv. 19), king of Babylon 722-705. Sargon 722. Fall of Samaria 722. Capture of Samaria in and end of the Sargon’s accession northern kingyear dom
1 So Savce Rogers, and others. The date rests upon a statement of Nabu-na’id’s, that Sargon reigned 3200 years before himself. Lehmann holds that there death (Gen. xi. 32), and also (as explained above) interpreting wrongly Ex. xii. 40. 4 ? g°prS’75 '3,i3 ‘Manj^monuments and inscriptions of other kings in Babylonia, between b.c. 4000 and 2100, are also known. Tavlor 1898V 5 The dates’of the kings are, in most cases, those given by Kautzsch in the table in his Outline of tU Hist, of the Literature of the 0. T. (tr. by Taylor, 1S98> > The dates eiven by other recent authorities seldom differ by more than three or four years. , _ „ ... „ -p 0 v p. 167 the numoer number oi of years assigned e.eigned to hi, reign in theOld Te.t.ment._ ^ssion For Saul, viz., e 1 20 Samandan25. respectively, 2 E.V. 6 The figures Ster after afmJmm king's name indicate tne ro ms leigii ^ for it would 7 If these dates are correct, there must be some error m the ages assigned to Ahaz and Hezekiah at their accession, ’ accession rests upon the otherwise follow from them that Ahaz was born when his father was not more than 4 years nfSamaria in Hezekiah’sethyear) is reigns of Jotham and Ahaz; but it requires, of course, a corresponding reduction in the reigns of the kings succeeding Ahaz.
