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I. — CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES
1. The Old Testament to the Death of Solomon,
(According to Usher. See "Chronology.")
B.C.
4004..The creation. 3874..Birth of Seth.
3882..Birth of Enoch, the seventh from Adam. 3317..Birth of Methuselah.
3130..Birth of Lamech.
3074..Death of Adam, aged 930 years 3017..Translation of Enoch in the three hundred
and sixty-fifth year of his age.
2948..Birth of Noah. 2348..The deluge.
2233..Dispersion of mankind; confusion of tongues at Babel.
2126..Birth of Terah, Abram's father. 1998..Death of Noah, aged 950 years, 350 years
after the flood.
1996..Birth of Abram. He was 75 years old when his father Terah died.
1922..Terah, with his family, leaves Ur of the Chaldees, and dwells in Haran.
1921..Abram enters the land of Canaan. 1913..Abram rescues Lot, who had been taken
prisoner by Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14:4-20).
1910..Birth of Ishmael,
1897..Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. 1896 Issac born Abraham being 100 years old. 1859..Sarah died at Hebron, in the one hundred
and twenty-seventh year of her age.
1821..Abraham died, aged 175 years, 100 years after his entrance into the land of Canaan.
1773..Ishmael died, aged 137 years.
1760..Jacob fled into Mesopotamia to escape his brother's rage.
1739..Jacob returns to Canaan from Mesopotamia. 1729..Joseph is sold to the Midianites.
1716..Isaac died, aged 180 years. 1715..Joseph made governor over the whole of
Egypt.
1708..The seven years of famine begin. 1706..Jacob, with his family, goes down into
Egypt.
B.C.
1689..Death of Jacob. 1635..Joseph dies, aged 110 years 1571..Birth of Moses.
1531..Moses flees into the land of Midian. 1491..Moses returns to Egypt at the command of
God. 1451..Exodus.
1451..Death of Miriam, Moses' sister. 1444..The first Sabbatical year. From hence the
year of jubilee is to be reckoned. 1444..The Tabernacle set up in Shiloh, wh
remained 328 years.
1427..Joshua dies, aged 110 years. then fol period of anarchy and confusion. Th people sink into idolatry, and are b 1400..Othniel, the first of the judges, deliv
Israel. Israel continued to be gover judges for about 450 years, to the ti Samuel.
1091..Saul anointed king by Samuel. 1085..David, the son of Jesse, born. 1065..David anointed king (1 Samuel 16:1 1055..Death of Saul at Gilboa.
1055..David goes to Hebron, and is there anointed king by the men of Judah, and there he reigns 7 1/2 years.
1048..The captains and elders of all the tri coming to hebron anoint David as over all Israel. Jerusalem now becom seat of his kingdom. Here he reigne years.
1023..Rebellion of Absalom. 1015..Solomon anointed king by the comm
his father David.
1012..Solomon begins to build the temple, was finished in 7 1/2 years.
1004..The temple dedicated at the Feast of Tabernacles.
976..Death of Solomon, after reigning 4 years, The kingdom is now divid
Relations of the Two Kingdom s to each other. | Kingdom of Judah. | B.C . | Kingdom of Israel. | Contemporan ous Persons a Events in Heathen Countries. |
I. Mutual hostility from B.C. 976 to B.C. 918. | Rehoboam. Son of Solomon and Naamah. Reigned 17 years. | 976 | Jeroboam. Son of Nebat. Reigned 22 years. Prophet: Ahijah. | |
Land invaded and Jerusalem plundered by Shishak, and Rehoboam made tributary (1 Kings 14:25, 25). Prophets: Shemaiah and Iddo. | 973 | Shishak, king Egypt. | ||
Abijah or Abijam. Son of Rehoboam and Maachah. Reigned 3 years (1 Kings 15:1, 2). | 959 | |||
Asa (1 Kings 15:9). Son of Abijah. Cushite invasion. War with Zerah the Ethiopian (2 Chronicles 14:9). Alliance with Ben- hadad I. (1 Kings 15:18). Reigned 41 years Prophets: Oded, Azariah, Hanani, and Jehu. | 956 955 | Nadab (1 Kings 15:25). Son of Jeroboam. Murdered by Baasha, after a brief reign. | Osorkon II. (= probably Zerah), king of Egypt, the invader of Jud (2 Chronicles 14:9). | |
953 | Baasha (1 Kings 15:28). Son of Ahijah of Issachar, He exterminated the entire house of Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:29-39; 15:29). Reigned 24 years. Prophet: Jehu | Ben-hadad I., king of Syria. | ||
944 | The poet Hesi in Greece |
Relations of the Two Kingdom s to each other. | Kingdom of Judah. | B.C . | Kingdom of Israel. | Contemporan ous Persons a Events in Heathen Countries. |
I. Mutual hostility from B.C. 976 to B.C. 918. | Rehoboam. Son of Solomon and Naamah. Reigned 17 years. | 976 | Jeroboam. Son of Nebat. Reigned 22 years. Prophet: Ahijah. | |
Land invaded and Jerusalem plundered by Shishak, and Rehoboam made tributary (1 Kings 14:25, 25). Prophets: Shemaiah and Iddo. | 973 | Shishak, king Egypt. | ||
Abijah or Abijam. Son of Rehoboam and Maachah. Reigned 3 years (1 Kings 15:1, 2). | 959 | |||
Asa (1 Kings 15:9). Son of Abijah. Cushite invasion. War with Zerah the Ethiopian (2 Chronicles 14:9). Alliance with Ben- hadad I. (1 Kings 15:18). Reigned 41 years Prophets: Oded, Azariah, Hanani, and Jehu. | 956 955 | Nadab (1 Kings 15:25). Son of Jeroboam. Murdered by Baasha, after a brief reign. | Osorkon II. (= probably Zerah), king of Egypt, the invader of Jud (2 Chronicles 14:9). | |
953 | Baasha (1 Kings 15:28). Son of Ahijah of Issachar, He exterminated the entire house of Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:29-39; 15:29). Reigned 24 years. Prophet: Jehu | Ben-hadad I., king of Syria. | ||
944 | The poet Hesi in Greece |
Relations of the Two Kingdom s to each other. | Kingdom of Judah. | B.C . | Kingdom of Israel. | Contemporan ous Persons a Events in Heathen Countries. |
I. Mutual hostility from B.C. 976 to B.C. 918. | Rehoboam. Son of Solomon and Naamah. Reigned 17 years. | 976 | Jeroboam. Son of Nebat. Reigned 22 years. Prophet: Ahijah. | |
Land invaded and Jerusalem plundered by Shishak, and Rehoboam made tributary (1 Kings 14:25, 25). Prophets: Shemaiah and Iddo. | 973 | Shishak, king Egypt. | ||
Abijah or Abijam. Son of Rehoboam and Maachah. Reigned 3 years (1 Kings 15:1, 2). | 959 | |||
Asa (1 Kings 15:9). Son of Abijah. Cushite invasion. War with Zerah the Ethiopian (2 Chronicles 14:9). Alliance with Ben- hadad I. (1 Kings 15:18). Reigned 41 years Prophets: Oded, Azariah, Hanani, and Jehu. | 956 955 | Nadab (1 Kings 15:25). Son of Jeroboam. Murdered by Baasha, after a brief reign. | Osorkon II. (= probably Zerah), king of Egypt, the invader of Jud (2 Chronicles 14:9). | |
953 | Baasha (1 Kings 15:28). Son of Ahijah of Issachar, He exterminated the entire house of Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:29-39; 15:29). Reigned 24 years. Prophet: Jehu | Ben-hadad I., king of Syria. | ||
944 | The poet Hesi in Greece |