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Ancient Israel

By AnthonyF56663
  • 2000 BCE

    Conveant With Abraham

    God made a promise to Abraham that required nothing of him. God promised Abraham 3 things land, descendants, blessing and redemption.
  • 1940 BCE

    Abraham Sent To Sacrifice Isaac

    Abraham was sent to kill his own son Isaac when they arrived to Moriah.
  • 1446 BCE

    Exodus From Egypt

    The Book of Exodus was written by Mosses. It recorded Israel's experience as slaves in Egypt.
  • 1040 BCE

    David Found (Starts) Jerusalem

    King took over Jerusalem.
  • 1000 BCE

    Solomon Becomes King

    King Solomon becomes king when he builds the temple. King Solomon was king for 40 years.
  • 722 BCE

    Assyrians Conquer Notherner Kingdom of Isreal

    The city of Samaria was overtaken by Assyrians. The following three years, Assyrians manage to conquer Israel altogether.
  • 617 BCE

    Revolt of the Maccabees

    In the narrative of I Maccabees, after Antiochus issued his decrees forbidding Jewish religious practice, a rural Jewish priest from Modiin, Mattathias the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods.
  • 586 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzer Conquered Judah

    In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzer II, king of Babylon defeated Pharaoh Necho at the Battle of Carchemish, and subsequently invaded Judah. To avoid the destruction of Jerusalem, King Jehoiakim of Judah, in his third year, changed allegiances from Egypt to Babylon.
  • 539 BCE

    Cyrus Conquers Babylon

    In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an oriental empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science.
  • 63 BCE

    Romans Capture Jerusalem

    The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, with Tiberius Julius Alexander as his second-in-command, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, which had been occupied by its Jewish defenders in 66.