Ancient Israel

By rasana44480@mnpsk12.org
  • 2000 BCE

    God's covenant with abraham

    God's covenant with abraham
    To make Abraham the father of many nations and of many descendants and give "the whole land of Canaan" to his descendants. Circumcision is to be the permanent sign of this everlasting covenant with Abraham and his male descendants.\
  • 1940 BCE

    Abraham sent to sacrifice isaac

    Abraham had obeyed God many times in his walk with Him, but no test could have been more severe than the one in Genesis 22. God commanded, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering”.
  • 1460 BCE

    Exodus from egypt

    The Exodus is the founding, or etiological, myth of Israel; its message is that the Israelites were delivered from slavery by Yahweh and therefore belong to him through the Mosaic covenant.
  • 1010 BCE

    David founded jerusalem

    David founded jerusalem
    King David conquered the city from the jebusites and established it as the capital of the united kingdom of Israel, and his son, commissioned the building of the first temple. Modern Jerusalem has grown far beyond the old city's boundaries.
  • 970 BCE

    solomon becomes king

    solomon becomes king
    After, Solomon's death, Irael fell apart and had to split.Upon Solomon's death, his son, Rehoboam, succeeds him. However, ten of the Tribes of Israel refused him as a king.
  • 605 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar conquered judah

    In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar 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 conquered babylon

    In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science. The subject provinces soon recognized Cyrus as their legitimate ruler. Since he was already lord of peripheral regions in modern Turkey and Iran.
  • 166 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.
  • 106 BCE

    Romans captured jersalem

    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. The siege ended with the sacking of the city and the destruction of its Second Temple
  • Feb 23, 721

    Assyrains conquer Northern kingdom of israel

    The Assyrian Empire conquers the northern kingdom of Israel in about 721 BC. The Assyrians torture and decapitate many. They force many people (10 of the 12 Tribes of Israel) out of Israel and bring in foreigner.